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The dancing turns into drinking and eating, and Dagesh insists on doing everything for me He makes me a plate of food and fills nancy He is a little crestfallen at that, but it's quickly replaced with tea "With no white roots," he tellsspecific to me

All around us, everyone is eating and drinking People come up to me and shout “et so into the celebration A lot of the, but they say it with such glee that it's adorable The woive me small presents—from tea to roots to a pair of small, carved hoops for my ears

"I feel a little guilty," I confess to Georgie as she brings her gift of a few tallow candles "No one else had a wedding and now I' an enormous one"

"No one else wanted one," Georgie says, waving aside esh told us all about how upset you were about not having a proper Jeedding, and well, the rest of us aren't Jewish, but we did e could I hope it's okay?" She giveslook "We want you to be happy here All of us, of course, but especially your mate"

I look over at Dagesh, who hasn't left ot an intense look on his face, as if he's searching my eyes for some sort of answer I reach out and squeeze his hand, and sie

I don't knohere they got the idea that I wanted a big Jeedding It's incredibly sweet of them, but I've always been a bit of a bad Jew I' the Sabbath, and while I've always stuck to kosher, that's a lot harder to do here in our current situation I figure the Alhty will understand

But I never expected to have a big Jeedding back hoot the idea in his head that I did? I wonder who told him that…because it wasn't me

It's a conversation for later, though, e're in private For now, I s a wonderful tiht everyone has put into this I feel like the entire tribe has welcoe of tears with how lucky I feel to have this big ice planet family

I hug everyone

I eat so much feast food that I bloat up

I hold Dagesh's hand the entire time