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Before central heating

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"There was a curious New England custom ...called Bundling, which was love-making under peculiar circumstances....Boys and girls who bundled went to bed together, with their clothes on, and stayed until morning. Sometimes they got married afterward. And sometimes they didn't...Many Mayflower Descendants have a bundling ancestry, though they never mention it.''

-- From Eleanor Early's A New England Sampler (1940)

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