Day of Honey by Annia Ciezadlo

Author:Annia Ciezadlo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2011-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

A few days later Mohamad appeared at the door of our bedroom. I was sitting at the desk, finishing an article about the evils of Lebanon’s sectarian political system.

“My dad gave me this thing,” he said, frowning, holding a piece of paper about the size of a Post-it Note.

“Yeah? So what is it?”

“It’s from Hajj Naji. He wants us to read it.”

“Why?”

“So we’ll be really married.”

“Oh.”

I remembered the wise judge who married us in New York. “You know, Mohamad and Annia, on one level, this is just a contract you’re making,” she had said. “But if it were only a legal contract, then it wouldn’t be a matter of such incredible moment in our experience as human beings; it wouldn’t be so resonant, so sacramental.” Slaves would not have fought for it in the nineteenth century; gays and lesbians would not be fighting for it now. So what is it, she asked, that makes this ceremony a sacrament?

I reached out my hand for the piece of paper. “Let’s do it,” I said. “You think we should?” He handed over the paper as if he was relieved to be rid of it.

“Why not?”

Standing behind me, he looked over my shoulder, and we examined the document together. It was a small square of white memo paper, the kind they call “bloc-note” in Lebanon. Along the top, it bore the legend ANIS COMMERCIAL PRINTING. Underneath, Abu Hassane—presumably at Hajj Naji’s instruction—had penciled in Arabic:

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