Greek Orthodox Customs Most of the kids I grew up with in the Greek village of Karpatos were forced into arranged marriages, but I never thought it would happen to me. I didn't want to get married. I wanted to be a singer. When I was 14, my family moved to a Greek Orthodox community. Suddenly, even though I could still barely say " hello" in English, I was going to school and being exposed to all these wonderful Western things. Then, at a neighborhood Greek festival, my mother, who was convinced I was boy crazy, saw me talking to a guy, and decided that if she didn't marry me off I'd disgrace myself. She knew a woman who lived in New York with her 21-year old son, who was working as a waiter. My parents went there to arrange a marriage between us. My father told my mother that he didn't like the prospective bridegroom, but she didn't care. I met my husband six days before th....

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