Of something that does not satisfy the presupposition of the pair exists and nonexists, and so neither exists nor nonexists, we cannot ask why it exists.

Dear Jané, / Maybe Mrs. J. P. M., who objects to her daughter-in-law’s “pants,” has a son like my husband.[…]Be-pantsed Housewife, L.A.

The most important business of the shoterim was to keep the genealogical registers; to record accurately the marriages, births, and deaths among the people; and, probably, as they kept the rolls of families, to apportion the public burdens and services on the people individually.

And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff, said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.