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"Who gives this woman to wed this man?" Father Pat asked I’d been so captivated by O’Connell that ere already at the altar
"I do," replied Danny gruffly and placed my hand in O’Connell’s as he stepped back
"You ca hard
"Did you think I wouldn’t?" I asked, and he nodded looking vulnerable
"You look so beautiful," he told ave myself, heart and soul, to the man that I wanted to spend the rest of ave his heart and soul to me
"LADIES AND GENTLEMAN," yelled Kieran "May I present to you the bride and groom, Mr and Mrs O’Connell"
The entire room at St Patrick’s Sports and Social Club stood up and applauded I held ontofrom ear to ear since that ludicrously passionate kiss at the altar He’d forewarned me on the way over that he and the boys had done the best they could with the wedding, but with little money and no notice, they’d co Christain, came to the rescue and had leaned on the co The local fish and chip shop served their fare in paper cones for the wedding feast Personally, I thought it was a fantastic idea, and I still couldn’t believe they’d pulled it all off With everyone pro photos froht even have a proper wedding albuhts adorned the walls, and in the cold light of day, I was sure that the club was , but to my romantic love-struck eyes, it onderful We hadn’t arrivedwo toward us She crossed the entire room with arms wide open, then threw them around me as she reached us and squeezed
"You are just as beautiful as Tommy said you were, darlin’ Not that I don’t love you like me own son, Con, but ifhter-in-la You are pretty as a picture in that beautiful dress I cried when you said your vows, didn’t I, John? I cried"
She turned around to poor John as she asked him, hand on heart, but as he opened his ain ten to the dozen Apparently, the question was rhetorical
"And, Con, you are so handsome So handsome," she said, as she reached up on her tiptoes to squeeze his cheeks like you eous, as usual If I wasn’t a happily married man, John would be in trouble now," charh he’d rinned up at O’Connell and shook his hand, but before he could congratulate us, Mary started again
"Get away, you charmer You’ll have to watch out for this one, lovely He’ll charins out of their knickers Now ood boy and loyal to a fault You’d never catch Toirls"
To In fact, as I thought back on some of the train wrecks that he’d hooked up with since I’d known hiood looks were even on To a pulse and being over eighteen were probably the only attributes on that list
"Feckin’ hell, Mary Are you seriously trying to poachday?"
"Best place to irl is the one gettinga little irate
"Ah, stop your ot eyes for you, boyo Now if I could find a girl like that, who’d bake a cake for people she doesn’t even know, I’d be a happy woman You don’t have any sisters do you?" she asked et a word in
"Nikki is single, and she’s lovely," O’Connell told Mary, pointing Nikki out across the room