The process of getting married, Miriam realized soon after Edmund formally, actually proposed, was fraught for it, like so many other things was tied up in a complex web of Narnia memory, regret, and, since his death in the train crash and return from Aslan’s Country, dogged commitment to get it right this time and stick around long enough to finish the job.
It was complex for her, as well, for there was no family to escort her under the chuppa, there would be no Mitzvah Tantz with her father and grandfather to dance, her mother would not be crowned in the Krenzel, and her parents would not dance the Mizinke; Miriam was, as far as she knew, the only one in her large, extended family to survive Nazi occupation and the death camps.
Finally, tentatively she offered, “I know we aren’t going to try 24 different ceremonies and we will have to keep all our clothes but we could elope to Gretna Green,” and was relieved when Edmund nodded and even smiled a little, “I would like that, and we won’t have to listen to Peter for an hour.”
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The process of getting married, Miriam realized soon after Edmund formally, actually proposed, was fraught for it, like so many other things was tied up in a complex web of Narnia memory, regret, and, since his death in the train crash and return from Aslan’s Country, dogged commitment to get it right this time and stick around long enough to finish the job.
It was complex for her, as well, for there was no family to escort her under the chuppa, there would be no Mitzvah Tantz with her father and grandfather to dance, her mother would not be crowned in the Krenzel, and her parents would not dance the Mizinke; Miriam was, as far as she knew, the only one in her large, extended family to survive Nazi occupation and the death camps.
Finally, tentatively she offered, “I know we aren’t going to try 24 different ceremonies and we will have to keep all our clothes but we could elope to Gretna Green,” and was relieved when Edmund nodded and even smiled a little, “I would like that, and we won’t have to listen to Peter for an hour.”