today's object of joy (OOJ) is a short story by Montana native Maile Meloy. i feel mostly enh about many of the short stories i read these days but this one grabbed me because (a) the plot moves pretty quickly and (b) i'm fascinated by the concept of proxy marriages, which i'd never heard of before. as the story explains, a proxy marriage is when two people who want to get married can not be in the same physical place, so they hire two other random people and a judge to perform their wedding, and somehow this is legal. this arrangement seems to be the anti-wedding: no fuss over flowers and catering, and the people getting married aren't even in the same room. it's a reminder of one of the many sacrifices that active military personnel and their families have to make.
"The Proxy Marriage"
"The Proxy Marriage"
No comments:
Post a Comment