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Weddings, Weeping, and the Wisdom of Aunts

In Morocco a wedding is not one day. It is a week. And the week is run by the aunts. Nobody else. Not the bride, not the groom, not the mothers, not the fathers. The aunts. If you have never seen five Moroccan aunts organizing a wedding you have not seen a real committee.

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Quiet Ember

So funny and so true.

1 month
Tony Delgado

On the fourth day she danced with the aunts. Every good essay has an image like this.

1 month
Rebecca K.

Aunt Khadija is a whole novel. Please write it.

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