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March 3, 2006
Puberty Blues?
After having safron bath in the morning, she is led down a carpeted path while her family throw rice and flowers above her head. She is draped in her first saree and adorned with all her mother’s best gold, because she is a woman now. Then she is seated in a room under an arch of flashing lights and flowers and streamers for the whole day while well wishers come and offer her presents and eat Sri Lankan sweets and congratulate her parents. Her mother plays the perfect host, her self dressed in the most amazing gold saree, and flaps about the room making sure we all eat too much. Her dad is beaming with pride and pointing to daughter who is all grown up now.
… and all I got was a packet of maxi-pads!
Posted by catherine at March 3, 2006 4:49 PM