A bar mitzva or bridegroom is usually (in congregations I'm familiar with, or, at least, Ashkenazic ones) given maftir. Why is this, considering that it's the lowliest of all the aliyos (e.g.)? (The question is made even stronger by the fact that a katan can get maftir even according to the common custom not to give him another aliya, so it seems a very odd choice to give a new gadol.)
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