she’ll be more important than me?
I took her hand. Weddings
— Your dad loves you in a special way. You are his only daughter. No one can take that place.
— Even if he gets married?
— Even then.
She thought for a moment.
— What about the pictures?
— You’ll be in them.
— How do you know?
— Because I’ll make sure you are. Parenting
She believed me.
Then she asked me to go outside with her so she could hear the tapping of her little shoes again.
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We went outside.
She twirled around the parking lot until she started laughing again.
And by then, I already knew what I had to do.
During the ceremony, I sat in the third row and watched Emmett and Claire exchange their vows.
I had a lot to say.
But I knew the most important thing was not to turn the wedding into a conflict.
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