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Too many times a bridesmaid, never a bride

Between the three of us, we’ve been part of a wedding party no less than twenty-seven times Melody holds the record, with ten bridesmaid appearances and three turns as maid of honor, all before her twenty-third birthday At this rate, she’ll have a dozen plastic bins full of hideous old dresses in our parents’ garage before she’s twenty-five Aria and I aren’t far behind her, tied with seven stints each down the aisle in scratchy taffeta

“Well, I think it’s nice that so s,” Melody says “It ood friends”

“Besides, you already proved theirl has been married, even if it didn’t stick There’s still hope Melody and I will have weddings of our own soet a second chance with someone truly fabulous”

Romantic, happy-ever-after-dreams do come true, I think, a little wistfully I see it all the ti to co in at the ro if we’re going to need more mustard

It just …

After breaking up with Thos have been pretty quiet in the romance department Not that Thomas was particularly romantic He inherited his dad’s pool supply co chlorine and water filters, but as a forh school football star, his true passions were following Bliss River High’s football season, obsessing about his Fantasy Football Roster, and yelling at the television with his buddies down at the sports bar We had a good tirill catfish or see a movie, but there were never any real fireworks

The earth didn’t move

The butterflies didn’t take wing

My knees didn’t go soft and spongy every time we touched

Not like with He Who Shall Not Be Allowed Back in My Thoughts

Hiuy who’s ever made me boil like chicken stock left in the crockpot a little too long