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20.8.04

i swear that preacher was.

so at m's cousin's wedding last week or two weeks ago - they were married by this minister/priest/televangelist person who had known them both for quite some time (they're nice little churchgoing types). and it was very nice because this person had known them both just about forever, since they were in junior high or so, and it was this very personal, specific ceremony. but m and i aren't exactly churchgoing types, and even if we were i don't think we'd go to the same ones, and there aren't any clergypeople that know me at all (which isn't something i mind in the slightest) and i don't think m is friendly with too many either. and quakers don't have other people marry them anyway so even if i did know any clergypeople they wouldn't do it. (but, wow, poho changed their website. Good for them.) but. so. we don't have any priest-types of our own. but we don't want to hire a priest because he might turn out like m's cousin's priest - talking about jesus in every other sentence (at times he sounded like he was officiating a menage a trois - because jesus is with them every step, at all times, holding both their hands, between them, watching them, loving them, actually between them at all times, and however they love each other, they're loving each other through jesus). no jesus-talk. none. and i have to talk to m and see if we want any god-talk at all; we may not. Which would be fine. but which would make it complicated to get a clergyperson. and we don't know any justices of the peace either of course. we were thinking that t is internet-ordained but i think we may have offended him a little bit ("by the power vested in me by SCIENCE!") only then there's this other person down here that m was talking to only he's a jehovahs' witness and really i don't think ... i mean on second thought i really don't think a jehovahs' witness would be entirely appropriate, you know? i'd sort of rather have t do it (by a pretty damn good margin, too). But.

m's cousin's preacher was scary. he was so theatrical. and yes, there was videotaping going on, and yes, weddings are stagey and contrived, but ...i dunno. He didn't blink often enough. when they make the Dark Tower series into a movie, he could be the .. ahm .. Walking Dude.

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