# 28 May 2006, 06:46PM: MC Masala on Waiting for Marriage:
In which I quote Loving v. Virginia and list off marriage perks.
I'm lucky. Narrowly speaking, I'm lucky because New York's waiting period is short; New Hampshire makes you wait three days. More broadly, I'm lucky because I live in 2006, so no one so much as blinks at my interracial and interfaith marriage where no one's changing his name or leaving her job.