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Abdirahman Abdalla was around seven years old when he went to his mother’s first-cousin’s wedding in Rochester, Minnesota. It was a sunny July day, and around 30-40 close family and friends gathered in his cousin’s home to celebrate the union. Clad in whites and creams with reddish-orange stripes, men wore suits and women wore the dirac, a traditional dress for formal occasions. Abdalla remembers watching his mother and other women performing traditional dances while joyful guests offered excited gestures of encouragement. He also wore a suit, which annoyed him because his little cousins were around at the time playing Twister, and it’s difficult to play Twister in a suit. After the wedding, everyone went outside where there was cake, and Abdalla remembers the entire scene as a really great time. In fact, as an American born first-generation Somali-American, Somali weddings are one of his favorite cultural traditions.