The Last Princess
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But now the moment had come when she was compelled to set aside such worldly thoughts. The first star had appeared in the heaven. Shabbas was over and night had come and it was time for Jacob on one side of Katie and herself on the other to walk Katie down to the end of the aisle, where David, alongside his parents, awaited his future wife. As the tapering candles were lit and handed to each of the parents under the blue velvet chuppa, the rabbi began the sacred and solemn ceremony in Hebrew. The bride and both sets of parents circled the groom seven times in the truest of orthodoxy. Next the parents stood at their separate sides and the last blessings for everlasting peace, devotion and love were said. The goblet was handed to the bride as she lifted her veil for the first time and drank from the cup offered her by her husband. The veil was then dropped so as not to reveal her face, and the goblet was handed back to David, who nervously drank from it. They were pronounced man and wife and, amid shouts of mazel tov, the wine goblet was stomped upon by David. He then picked up the veil once again, held it so only he could see his bride’s face in the candlelight, slipped it over her head and held and kissed her so long and so tenderly that everyone began to sing joyously, “Chassen kallah mazel tov.”
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About the Author
Cynthia Freeman (1915–1988) was the author of multiple bestselling novels, including Come Pour the Wine, No Time for Tears, and The Last Princess. Her novels sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. Born in New York City’s Lower East Side, she moved as a young child with her family to Northern California, where she grew up. She fell in love with and married her grandmother’s physician. After raising a family and becoming a successful interior decorator, a chronic illness forced her to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle. At the age of fifty-five, she began her literary career with the publication of A World Full of Strangers. Her love of San Francisco and her Jewish heritage drove her to write novels with the universal themes of survival, love, hate, self-discovery, joy, and pain, conveying the author’s steadfast belief in the ability of the human spirit to triumph over life’s sorrows.
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