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But, since we moved out of 16 Church Lane South, our greatest joy has been watching our families change and grow.
On October 7, 2006, we watched in a beautiful white church in Camden, Maine, as Molly Magill, the blushing bride, walked down the aisle, as Dan Meyer stood at the altar next to the minister, looking back toward her with very visible tears in his eyes, and we listened as David delivered a toast to the bride and groom in which he perfectly invoked the complexity of the Meyer-Yaverbaum family by, among other things, speaking of the fact that Sarah Rebell, the daughter of remarried Michael Rebell, the brother of Dave and Dan’s stepfather’s former wife, née Phyllis Rebell, and half sister of his stepfather’s former niece and nephew, Joshua and Laura Rebell, was attending school with Katie Meyer, the daughter of Kathy’s former husband, Bob, and his second wife, Terri, and, therefore, the half sister of Dan and David Meyer, the stepbrothers of Danny, Peter, and Rachel Yaverbaum—and both girls knew all of the foregoing.
On July 21, 2007, we sat by Long Island Sound at sunset on a gor- geous summer evening at the Wainwright House, in Rye, New York, as Rachel, looking absolutely beautiful, and Joseph Beninati Jr., beaming, exchanged their vows in front of a man in Native American garb (he was half Cheyenne, half Hawaiian), whose website styled him “a transforma- tional guide, a spirit tracker” and “a modern healer of people, animals, and the earth,” with whom Rachel, Joe, Phyllis, and I had shared a pipe (containing I know not what) prior to the ceremony. And we and the rest of the assembled guests were later blown away as Rachel and Joe joined the band, with Joe playing the drums and Rachel singing, appropriately enough, the Guns N’ Roses hit, “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”
On March 15, 2008, we sat in Town Hall in Brussels, Belgium, as Annabelle Vinois and David married, and the officiating municipal officer spoke about how proud he was to preside over a wedding where one of the couple was an American, with the organist punctuating his remarks by playing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” before repairing to a wonderful dinner at the Vinois residence, which was preceded by
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