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The the blue is gone. Could you tell us about this first picture again? 5053 years old, they want to know about the first picture again so that they can record it on this. Ok. This is before getting married. Now you are made to sit and wait

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for the bride to come. So he was sitting with uh this the family friends, this one and this is the priest who married him like you know, and this is my side of the family. This was my aunt, my mother's sister, this is my cousin, her

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eldest daughter and this is her third son and daughter. And then um this is me, this is my eldest aunt's mother, daughter and the cousin of mine. This one. And then this and these are our servants. Yeah. So the second picture, this is all your side

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of the mind and my side of the family, my cousins and all that. This aunt of mine, she had a rheumatic arthritis so she couldn't move. She has to be picked up and made to sit on a chair and taken anywhere and everywhere. If we go,

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you know, like she wanted to come to my wedding. So we look at her hands. I like that, you know. Mhm And then now this is we sit for the wedding. Now this is my other, my youngest son's daughter. This also was, yes, she is. And

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this is during the wedding. This is now no, it still not started. And this is before starting, you know, people coming to our gathering like you know, so yeah, this is my sister in law, who was he, she, she died. This is Katie's sister in law.

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She also died. All these people died. This is my, my father's brother's wife, my aunt, she was, this is my mother and they give us, you know, this is my sister who's in Bombay. These are all his side of the family. This is my father-in-law, this

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is my mother-in-law. This is myself. What happened? This is, you know, he's always here, you know, now this is all just greetings. This is all just greetings. These are friends and this is now what is, what is happening with uh this is sort of forget de

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oh, but what do you, what's he doing with the, what are you doing with the hands? Oh, is that right? Yeah, they need to. They don't know what that is. Oh, that's in a tray. They have uh coconut, they have certain things, what else? They have

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rice and an egg and they get it around you so that the evil spirit doesn't you know that you or something like that. I set the purification blessing type. This is, this is my mother doing that to me just with a coconut. She goes around and

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then breaks it. Now we are set for the wedding. Is this your husband? Yes. So now you're allowed. Is this? So now you've been after you've been married, you can sit next to each other. Yes. After after marriage, of course, you can sit. I mean this,

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this picture is after you've already been, you've married, getting married like you know. Mhm This is the same photo as this one. These are our friends. This one, this one, this is my husband myself, my sister, Katie and her sister-in-law. These are my friends there. I

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was working in Bombay. Oh Something came out from me. I don't know from there. It came out but let it be uh OK. These are also friends. They were, these are also friends after after wedding. We always have a dinner. So we are, we sit for

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dinner. This is our joint family. This is my father. This is me. This is my sister who's in MBE. There's another sister who's a therapist here. This is my mother. This is S P's brother. This is his father. This is my mother-in-law Lisa. This was a

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friend, somebody, this is my sister and this is my brother-in-law who was, who was in Chicago. Now he's no more. This is with his family. My father-in-law, mother-in-law and 12 and three. Dad, three brothers. This is my side of the family. My father, my mother, and

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these are all my sisters and my brother and we have four sisters. Hm. And so one of these sisters still lives in Bombay sisters. One of your sisters still lives in Bombay lives in Bombay. Is this one? Why didn't she come to America? She didn't come

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because she had a good job in uh airlines. I mean, in um adding your job plus, you know, she gets good medical there. So at this age now she doesn't want to move here. It's very difficult. See, Berlin, you haven't seen it, you must have seen

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it. One. Berlin is a Zora. You made her Zora. Could you also tell us about the calendar? This is a about calendar plus the English one and it's spelled out the way we say it. It's spelled out that way, you know, over here like this is

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home, home means it's amazing the great God, you know this one now. So what do all of these mean? Did you our names, our monthly names and the Russian monthly name, I mean the names plus the English dates. See, these are your dates like so this

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is March 16th was our first day of that year of, of that month. Then 17th, 18 are in March 30 31st, 1st April. And with that, you know, on 1st April our um our day was. So see now if you read Gujarati, you can read it.

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But this is all done in Gujarati because in those days, given folks, they didn't learn English of before me that my mother and I, and all that, they never learned English. They learned, I just this little glare from the right there. OK? 30 that's 30 days

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and every day has a different significance and, and some days are better than others. And like sero, she is a good conscious. So that day you would think of things about good conscious. So it kind of is a reminder of uh the different uh aspects of

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the religion or of nature or whatever. So it's reinforcing the religion in red are supposed to be where I like holidays. This all in red. They have one, 234 and five days. So, like the Chinese would have certain days that would be better for the wedding

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and stuff. It's the same kind of principle. You would, if you had something big going on, you'd want to, to do it on those red days. If you could possibly do it.