My Dad’s 60th Birthday Invitation Said “dress Properly Or Don’t Come.”

He held it up so only I could see it.

My hands started shaking.

Because the woman in that photo – young, laughing, holding a newborn baby in a hospital bed – wasn’t my mother.

It was me.

And the man sitting beside her, holding her hand, wearing a wedding band I had never seen before –

Was him.

The governor looked at my father. His voice dropped to ice.

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