I concur with the anonymous poster. Your story is fake, as you know. I've seen you say elsewhere on this site that you are, I believe, 40 years old. And yet we're supposed to fall for some story where you were 'pressured' into marrying a 'trashy' woman in 2007 when you were, what, 29? And you live on the west coast of the USA, mind, not Pakistan or Afghanistan.
You're one of the most unabashedly all-in liberal people on this website, and you very likely come from a liberal family (just an assumption, I'm sure you'll say the opposite though to keep your story alive) since it seems like something which was inculcated in you a long time ago. So we wouldn't even be talking here about a firmly conservative Republican family in the south who 'pressured' you into marriage when you were 29, but rather a CNN watching Obama voting west coast family.
And a bar in Las Vegas in 2007 just happened to be playing 'Singles Going Steady' in its entirety! With 'Ever Fallen in Love' coming on as you entered! The synchronicity! The irony of it all! (The bullshit of it all.) Like the script from some mid 00s indie teen film that bombed at the box office. You just so happened to still have a picture of the bar on your computer 11 years later, too. You may have been deep in sorrow about your impending nuptials, and blitzed drunk, but you were clear-headed enough to take a picture of the bar because hey it'll make a fascinating anecdote some day after this marriage goes tits-up. What foresight!
You were 'pressured' into marrying this woman but your family sent you off to the desert in Las Vegas to do it. A sort of quick covert wedding that families might have arranged for a teenage couple in the USA, pre-Weimerica, in the early 1960s when the girl fell pregnant; not for a 29 year old man in 2007 on the west coast. Were her family really that desperate to have you as a son-in-law? What kind of 29 y.o. man would allow himself to be pushed into a marriage that he wanted no part in? Are you some sort of trust fund kid whose money will be cut off by his family if he doesn't acquiesce to their demands? What other power could they possibly have over you at that age? They sound as fearsome as Sheikh Khalifa of the UAE!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...al-maktoum-had-planned-escape-for-seven-years
I'm surprised they allowed you to divorce since they were so adamant that you get married! Apparently they could only pressure you into getting married, but not into staying together. They must have moved on by the time you announced your divorce five years later; found other preoccupations. Which song was playing in the bar on the day of your final divorce hearing? 'The End' by The Doors? And you downed your pint, soaking in the irony. Maybe you're saving the divorce anecdote for the next time a popular musician dies. Will you have a picture of a bar that you'll use for that anecdote, as well?
I don't know why you're making up stories, probably to try to give your life some sense of barfly wisdom and poetry that it didn't actually have. You wanted to say something to mark Pete Shelley's death which packed a punch, but not having anything suitably profound to add you concocted something instead. A clichéd, Gilmore Girls type of 'something', but something nevertheless. Sorry I had to completely rubbish it, but I couldn't just sit back and allow that whopper of a lie to stand, now could I? Better luck next lie.
R.I.P. Pete Shelley