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Greek Orthodox Customs - Essay

Greek Orthodox Customs

Most of the kids I grew up with in the Greek village of Karpatos were forced into arranged marriages, but I never thought it would happen to me. I didn't want to get married. I wanted to be a singer.
When I was 14, my family moved to a Greek Orthodox community. Suddenly, even though I could still barely say " hello" in English, I was going to school and being exposed to all these wonderful Western things. Then, at a neighborhood Greek festival, my mother, who was convinced I was boy crazy, saw me talking to a guy, and decided that if she didn't marry me off I'd disgrace myself.
She knew a woman who lived in New York with her 21-year old son, who was working as a waiter. My parents ...

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we could barely look at each other. Then we headed back to the house where we had our religious ceremony. Following Greek Orthodox custom, I went home afterward with my parents.
The next day, my father drove Emanual, my husband, and me to a hotel. When we got to the room, I almost jumped for joy. There were two single beds. My father kissed me goodbye and left. Then a manager came by and said, "We gave you the wrong room," and led us to one with a double bed. I locked myself in the bathroom the entire night. Emanual didn't know what to do. He was almost as sexually innocent as I was. The next day, my father picked us up, and we moved in with my parents. I t took a month before I had sex with Emanual. It still felt like I was sleeping with a stranger. It always did.
I had started menstruating when I was 13. After my marriage, I stopped getting my period, but nobody explained that that meant I was pregnant. When I told my mom, she said I was going to have a baby. ...

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Added: 2/6/2006 03:19:17 PM
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