The priest called them up around the altar. Then he began to ask her some questions. “Were you faithful in good times and bad?” “Yes,” she said. “In sickness and health?” “Yes.” The priest led her through her wedding vows—but in the past tense. She affirmed, in the presence of the witnesses, that she had been faithful, that she had loved and honored her husband. Then the priest said, “May I have the ring, please?” She took it off her finger and handed it to him. She would tell Doka later that “it came off as if by magic.”
