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That's our niece Christina on the right, whom I first introduced to my blog readers quite a few years ago when she graduated from high school. And with her is our recently-acquired niece Megan, whom Christina espoused last summer in Syracuse, NY, where they live.

We didn't attend the ceremony, which was a small one held on a footbridge over a lily pond (modeled on this one by Monet). Christina has more aunts and uncles than any other person I know, save only her brothers, and there wasn't room. But she did promise to come out for a visit and hold a party for friends and relations to celebrate and meet Megan, and that was today.

Behold, then, the cutting of the cake. All chocolate, of course, a choice proving Christina's genetic relationship with her Auntie B.