Her father married her to a first cousin she scarcely knew . When Miryam had trouble feeding her firstborn , a girl named Rifqa , she and my grandfather gave the baby to a wet nurse . But the wet nurse disappeared , and the baby girl was never seen again . Three of Savta 's children had moved away to America , and we gathered that my grandfather , who died 13 years earlier , had grown distant long before that .

Question: Why did her father marry her to a first cousin she scarcely knew ?
Answer: Her father married her to a first cousin she scarcely knew because she could live in America if she did .Her father married her to a first cousin she scarcely knew because he did n't want the cousin to cheat on wet nurses .Her father married her to a first cousin she scarcely knew because Rifqa and Savta asked him to do so .Her father married her to a first cousin she scarcely knew because he wanted the children to be close to his family .