As for 1. Mine still was done on my cake. I take it yours wasn't?
You know, I honestly don't remember.
So you think it's constructed ritual to fill out space, basically? It's awfully graceful and accepted: I do find it interesting that a ritual like that would be so widely accepted, but many of the other rituals that people experiment with go nowhere. I have a feeling some socialite mother started it with her kid, and it caught on like wild fire- it's only the unplanned things that seem to work.
The more I think about it, the more I'm wondering if it was taken from sweet sixteen parties, or some other New World institution. I know very little about those, and would be interested to investigate the matter.
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You know, I honestly don't remember.
So you think it's constructed ritual to fill out space, basically? It's awfully graceful and accepted: I do find it interesting that a ritual like that would be so widely accepted, but many of the other rituals that people experiment with go nowhere. I have a feeling some socialite mother started it with her kid, and it caught on like wild fire- it's only the unplanned things that seem to work.
The more I think about it, the more I'm wondering if it was taken from sweet sixteen parties, or some other New World institution. I know very little about those, and would be interested to investigate the matter.