a passage, a cut-off- leave and cleave

a rite of passage, not a performance,'' said Catherine Freemire, a marriage and family therapist who teaches courses on life rituals at John F

a rite of passage, the final leg of your dating experience, but it is also the start of a long and interesting journey

a ritual and not the marriage itself, but because marriage is so important it is right to make a big deal out of the ritual

a ritual which exists in most societies, only at varying levels of involvement, from a simple agreement to meet, say, once a year for dinner, to the mutual exchanging of left limbs