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All questions you should have asked before you were ready to walk down the aisle, you big coward

“You shouldn’t joke about that,”her lips “You’re really lucky to ”

“I know that” I force a s around onto women tell me how lucky I a Are people telling him how lucky he is tohim away “This is your last chance to run, Marcus You can do better than some foster kid nobody wanted”

I suppose fro , no-good, lying, cheating asshole

“I didn’t mean I wanted you tothat nasal thing that happens when I get defensive “Just that I don’t want everyone staring at me”

Veronica presses her lips together in a thin line I e had that twin telepathy everyone always talks about in books andI ere close like we used to be so I could tell her about what I heard—or thought I heard—and get her feedback I guess I could have run it by a friend, but there are the friends you laugh with and then there are the friends you cry with I’ve always struggled to open up enough to make the second kind

It’s stuffy and crowded in here Maybe there isn’t enough oxygen for all of us I have seven brideses thirteen to twenty-eight—because every respectable Southern girl knows the bigger your bridal party, the happier the e

I stick h and gulp in the fresh air

Marcus’sroo to see you!”

“It’s just so hot in here” The lace on own is itchy, and it feels like there are four thousand people sitting out there—though I know it’s only one hundred and ten Martha was really eotto have to listen to loat”