I Let My Mother Think She’d Secured My Sister’s Wedding

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Another pause.

She was waiting for me to make it easier.

I didn’t.

Finally she said, “The venue needed the deposit by this week or we’d lose the date.”

“Did you know where the money came from?”

Silence.

Then, “Mom said she had it handled.”

“That’s not what I asked.”

More silence. I could hear her mouth working around the lie she wanted.

“I knew she was helping continue reading …