spend so much time trying to make weddings look perfect. But marriage isn’t about pretending that the past was perfect. It’s about deciding that, whatever happened before, we will tell each other the truth and try to do better.”
I looked at the woman standing beside me.
The woman I had loved for five years.
The woman who had just risked upsetting both our families to return a piece of my grandfather’s history to us.
And I realized that I had a choice.
I could let my embarrassment become the
