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...that last Tuesday, Grainne M. Godfree ’03, Angela E. Kim ’03 and I spend 45 long minutes posing in front of the Pit by the Harvard Square T stop as a bride, a groom and a priest...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Wish . . . | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

That morning, we decide that Angela will wear a bride costume she designed earlier in the year: a floor-length strapless gown with a train made from fuchsia cotton and maroon silk from Pakistan sewed over a fleece blanket. She covers her head with a matching tulle veil and burgundy wooden mask...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Wish . . . | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...Angela is the bride, Grainne has to be the groom. I debate whether I should play flower girl, priest or reporter until Grainne ties a white ribbon around my neck and proclaims it the perfect priest’s collar. With a borrowed Bible in hand, I’m ready...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Wish . . . | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...pennies by a few kind friends, and assume our positions. Grainne and Angela settle on the concrete blocks just outside the pit and I stand on the ground in front of them. I struggle to replicate the expressionless gaze I so admire in the Square’s bride and angel living statues. I stare straight ahead and try not to smile, not to make eye contact with the countless cruel passersby who ignore us or—even worse—approach us and then reconsider. One woman gives us the thumbs up; another comments to a friend that...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Wish . . . | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...roommates continue to battle involuntary muscle twitches, a woman begins snapping pictures of them from every angle. My time as a living statue had come to a close, so with my notebook in hand I approach the woman furiously photographing the bride and groom. Marie-France Studnicki-Gizbert had arrived from Canada two days before to visit her son at MIT, and is walking through the Square after a day-long tour of Harvard’s museums. She drops a dollar in our basket and tells me that we are hardly her first encounter with living statues...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Wish . . . | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

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