The following excerpt was taken from an advice columnist for the Atoka County Times in September 1960.
HER HUSBAND'S 'BRAND' TEARS HER UP!
Dear Amy: Would you please tell me what to do with a man of 27 who has a nice family of 3 children who love him the most, but who is always giving their mother hickey marks on the neck? Now I know this sounds silly (which it is) but it's embarrassing to me. The first thing people say is: 'What's that on your neck?' Just great! My husband is all the good things most men aren't. He never makes demands of me and seems to trust me completely. I have no intentions of ever leaving him. We get along wonderfully. Now he has teased me in the past of this being his brand. He seems to think this is a great joke, but he just doesn't realize how this tears me up. You know as well as I, a brand alone never kept a cow from straying. I hope to frame the answer.
