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

pearls and acted like none of it had happened. She smiled for pictures. She cried in the chapel. She hugged Emma too long at the reception and whispered something in her ear.

Emma pulled back and said, loud enough for the table to hear, “No, Grandma. France comes first.”

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