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intheheartTitle: Us
Rating: G.
Summary: Fatimah, getting married.
Date: Spring 1968
Notes: For a given definition of altar.
She insists on attending the nikah, instead of sending witnesses. It is her wedding, she tells her mother, and she will be there to stand before the imam and sign the contract that binds them together. She thinks, as she sets ink to paper, that she can feel the boundaries dissolving, "you and I" becoming "us" through some nebulous miracle of the heart.
She listens to the imam lecture them both, shivers in excitement as her husband-- her husband!-- takes her hand, slides his ring on her finger.
Allah has brought them together, and no one shall tear them apart.
Rating: G.
Summary: Fatimah, getting married.
Date: Spring 1968
Notes: For a given definition of altar.
She insists on attending the nikah, instead of sending witnesses. It is her wedding, she tells her mother, and she will be there to stand before the imam and sign the contract that binds them together. She thinks, as she sets ink to paper, that she can feel the boundaries dissolving, "you and I" becoming "us" through some nebulous miracle of the heart.
She listens to the imam lecture them both, shivers in excitement as her husband-- her husband!-- takes her hand, slides his ring on her finger.
Allah has brought them together, and no one shall tear them apart.
