![]() ![]() Because the white kite is still there - flapping with wings in her soul! It won't stay for long pierced on the barbed fence. From now on she refuses to do many more things expected from her - by her relatives or by us!. So much so that mourning for the forsaken family has become a formal and important part of the wedding ritual (or "hadn't her family loved and cared well enough for her?" the neighbours will gossip!) Lamia refuses to cry, leaving not only family but an injured yet proud fatherland behind the barbed wires. Thus, countless brides cried upon leaving their father's doorstep. In patriarchal societies the bride is given up to her new family for good (And allow me to stress here, not "Muslim" but "Patriarchal" society, for these customs did not differ much in many lands of Christian Europe at the time when people still extracted their bite of bread with year-long toil over the unforgiving earth). While walking the dirt-track from the Lebanese to the Israeli checkpoint in a white wedding dress, she does not cry. However, Lamia is a very strong girl with a bit of a mind of her own. the soldiers manning the watchtowers are blushing. ![]() The future husband is extolled, the virtues of the prospective bride are enumerated. as far as possible when the aunts have to shout across the no-man's land with megaphones!. Everything is done by the rules and custom!. Bizarre, humorous, touching and again - bizarre! A girl is married by her family to the cousin just across the border. ![]()
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