My twin sister wed a man she’d known four months and refused to let a single one of us meet him first, not even our mother. “You get to see him when he’s at the altar, same as everybody else,” she told Mom on the phone. The day itself turned out sweet and nobody fought. Then his mother stopped at our table with her coat over her arm.
Jessica called on a Sunday in July to say she’d gotten engaged.
Mom had both hands in a bowl of masa and made me hold the phone up to her ear.
“His name’s Cameron,” Jessica said. “He repairs elevators. He’s very calm.”
Mom looked at me over the bowl.
My sister has described men as intense, as complicated, and once as “a Sagittarius, so.” She had never described one as calm.
“When do we meet him?” Mom said.
“Soon.”
I’m her twin.
We split a bedroom until we were fourteen and a Civic through two years of community college.
I’d heard about every man she ever kissed within a day of it happening, usually around 1 a.m., usually for an hour.
I had NEVER heard of Cameron.
Not ONE word.
Soon turned into excuses.
He was on call that weekend.
His truck was in the shop.
His sister was moving and he’d promised to help.
Then, the second week of August, Mom asked one more time and got the line she still hasn’t let go of.
“You get to see him when he’s at the altar, same as everybody else.”
Mom sat crying in her car afterward, in our driveway, engine off, both hands on the wheel.
Dad watched from the porch and didn’t go out to her, because he never knows what to do with crying, and then he felt rotten about it for a week.
“That’s Jess,” he said later. “She does things sideways.”
My husband Marlon’s guess was a face tattoo.
“Or a wife,” I said.
Nobody laughed.
I called her myself that night. Just her and me.
“Twenty minutes,” I said. “Coffee. I won’t even ask questions.”
“Liz, you’ve never once not asked questions.”
“Then I’ll talk about the weather.”
She was quiet a while. “Six more weeks,” she said. “It’ll make sense, I promise.”
It didn’t make sense. It kept me awake.
Mom offered to pay for the hall. Jessica said no.
Mom offered her own wedding dress, which has hung in a garment bag in the hall closet for thirty-six years.
Jessica said no to that too, gently, and Mom acted like it was fine and then reorganized the whole closet at eleven at night.
We had the wedding on the last Saturday in September at the Knights of Columbus hall in Pueblo.
We walked in braced for a disaster.
Mom had a sewing kit, a lint roller, antacids and two hundred dollars in twenties in her purse.
Dad took ibuprofen in the car before we went in, for his knees.
I packed flats, and a maid of honor speech I wasn’t sure she’d let me give.
Cameron came out of a side room at a quarter to four.
Tall. A little soft around the belly. A careful haircut and a tux that actually fit him.
He went straight to Dad and shook his hand with both of his.
“Sir,” he said. “I’m sorry it took this long.”
Then he hugged Mom like he’d been waiting months to.
Mom stood there, arms stuck out at her sides, purse swinging off one wrist.
Then she hugged him back.
He turned to me. “You’re the one she calls at 1 a.m.”
“Is that a complaint?”
“It’s a compliment,” he said. “She doesn’t call anybody else.”
Goddamn it.
He was easy to like, and that made me angrier than anything else that day.
At the altar I stood close enough to see what nobody in the folding chairs could.
When the deacon asked for the rings, Cameron held out his left hand.
There was a pale stripe at the base of his ring finger.
A clean band of lighter skin, like something had sat there all summer and come off that morning.
I looked at my sister’s hand.
SAME stripe.
She caught me looking and turned her palm up.
Then she smiled at Cameron and said “I do” a little too fast.
Honestly, after that, we had a GOOD night.
The food came out hot. The DJ played what people asked for.
Cameron’s mother, Bernadette, wore a plum jacket and reading glasses on a beaded chain and laughed from her stomach.
By eight o’clock she and Mom were splitting one plate of tres leches by the cake like old friends.
“We’ve had her at Sunday dinner since spring,” Bernadette told her. “She makes the rice better than I do.”
Mom kept smiling.
Since spring.
Mom had asked for one coffee and been told six more weeks.
Cameron’s father, Russell, gave a toast nobody had planned.
“Took these two long enough to throw a party,” he said, and raised his beer, and Bernadette pulled hard on the back of his jacket before he could say the next part.
He sat down. People clapped anyway.
Dad kept his toast short. He said Jessica arrived four minutes after me and had been in a hurry to catch up ever since.
The room laughed. Cameron didn’t laugh at the joke. He laughed looking at her.
I gave my speech. Jessica cried through all of it, and she didn’t look me in the eye ONCE.
Everybody says twins can feel each other lying, like it’s a cute thing.
It isn’t.
By eleven the hall was half empty.
Dad was stacking folding chairs against the stage.
Mom was wrapping leftover cake in foil, because she’d paid for none of it and still couldn’t stand to see it thrown out.
Jessica was out on the floor in her stocking feet, holding her heels, Cameron’s jacket around her shoulders.
Bernadette came over to our table with her coat over her arm and her purse hugged to her middle.
Russell waited by the door with the car keys, not looking at us.
“Gina,” Bernadette said. “I hope to God none of this sits wrong with you. That nobody’s holding it against us.”
Mom laughed. She’d had two glasses of wine and the best night she’d had in a year.
“Holding WHAT against you?”
Bernadette’s hand stopped on the clasp of her purse.
Her mouth opened and closed.
She looked at Mom, then at me, then over both of us at my sister.
Jessica had seen her.
My sister went very still, the heels hanging off two fingers.
Cameron put a hand on the small of her back.
Bernadette turned back to my mother.
“Oh, honey,” she said. “They NEVER TOLD you?”
The foil
“The actual wedding was back in May,” Bernadette said. “We were there.”
I took the cake out of Mom’s hand.
She’d been pressing the foil into it with one thumb. Another second and she’d have wrapped herself a fistful of milk.
“May,” Mom said.
Bernadette nodded.
Jessica crossed the floor. One heel slipped from her fingers, and she left it behind.
“Mom, please. We were going to explain.”
“Before or after I put the cake in the car?”
Mom still had her hand out. I put a napkin in it.
Cameron reached us and offered her a chair. She stayed standing.
The ring stripes. Russell’s toast. My sister turning her palm upward while I stood next to her with a bouquet and the speech I’d practiced into my bathroom mirror.
I wanted to ask whether I should return my maid of honor title or whether they needed it for another performance.
“Was today a wedding?” I said.
“It was our celebration with everybody,” Cameron said. “The church knew we’d already married.”
Everybody. We were getting excellent mileage out of that word.
Jessica touched Mom’s elbow.
“We wanted you to have this day.”
Mom moved her arm.
Dad came over with a chair against his chest. He put it down without folding it.
“What’s happened?”
“Apparently we’re four months late for our daughter’s wedding,” Mom said.
Dad glanced at me. I gave a small headshake.
Bernadette lowered her coat onto the chair Cameron had pulled out.
“I thought you knew about May. I thought today meant everything was settled.”
Jessica reached for the coat.
“Russell’s waiting. Let me walk you out.”
Bernadette held on to the sleeve.
“Settled?” Mom said.
My sister stood between the two mothers, holding a coat nobody wanted her to take.
The unopened bag
A week before Mom wept in our driveway, Jessica came over alone.
Mom brought the wedding dress out of the closet and laid it across the couch. She’d cleaned her hands twice before touching the bag.
Jessica lifted it by the hanger.
“Mom, I love you. I don’t want to wear it.”
“You haven’t even looked.”
“I know what it looks like.”
Mom’s wedding picture stood two yards away. Fair point, delivered with the tenderness of a parking ticket.
“All right,” Mom said.
Jessica returned the bag without opening it. Mom took it, still zipped, and carried it back to the closet.
I followed her.
“You okay?”
“I’m fine.”
She put the hanger on the wrong side of the rail and had to start again. I pretended to examine a coat that had belonged to nobody since about 2009.
When we went back, Jess was waiting by my purse.
“You and Marlon still doing the trip money?”
For years we’d agreed that when she got married, I’d help with a honeymoon instead of buying towels. At my wedding, she’d paid for our hotel.
“Twenty-four hundred,” I said. “As promised.”
“Could you make the check out to me? I’m booking it.”
“Sure.”
She hugged me then. Her chin dug into my shoulder, the way it always did when she wanted something and felt bad about wanting it.
I kept that hug all the way to September. That’s the part I hate admitting.
Before she left, Mom tried once more about Cameron.
“Bring him here Sunday. Nothing fancy.”
“He works.”
“After work.”
“Mom.”
Jessica made our mother’s name sound like a cupboard she’d banged her knee on.
After the front door shut, Mom sat beside me.
“Send him something from me. She can play it for him.”
So I opened our message thread and held down the button.
“Cameron, it’s Gina,” Mom said toward my phone. “Apparently you work every hour God sends. Come hungry whenever you get a minute. No occasion. I’d just like to meet you.”
She waved me away from the button.
“And Jessica, wear whatever dress you want. I married your father in mine. It’s already done its job.”
I sent it.
Jessica wrote back that she’d play it for him.
I never checked. I was her sister, not the delivery service.
Now, in the hall, Mom rubbed the napkin between her fingers.
Dad reached for her hand. She let him take it.
Jessica was still trying to get Bernadette to the door.
The chair Cameron pulled out
“Sit down,” I said to Jessica.
“Liz, don’t start.”
“I’m asking you to sit.”
“You ask things like that, and then it’s an hour.”
There it was. My questions had arrived before me and acquired a reputation.
Cameron put a hand on the chair.
“Can we talk tomorrow? They’ve had a long day.”
He meant his parents. My father had taken painkillers to spend the evening stacking their chairs.
“We’ve had one too,” Dad said.
Russell came back from the door. Marlon stopped carrying gifts and stood beside me.
Nobody sat.
Mom looked at Cameron.
“Were you engaged when she called us in July?”
He looked at Jessica.
“We were married.”
“You’d only met four months before you married?”
“About that. We met in January.”
Mom nodded as if she were checking a grocery receipt. Something small was wrong. Perhaps the entire cart.
“So today was another ceremony.”
“We wanted the blessing and the party,” Jessica said. “We wanted everyone together.”
“Everyone could’ve been together in May.”
“We wanted something small.”
Bernadette opened her mouth. Jessica turned toward her before anything came out.
I put my hand on the table.
“Fine. Small is fine. The lying afterward isn’t. You could’ve told us on the phone.”
“I kept waiting for a better way to explain.”
“For four months?”
She looked toward the guests still gathering their things.
“Could you lower your voice?”
I nearly did. Thirty-three years of being the sister who could take a hint, fetch a sweater, move the car.
Instead, I pulled out another chair and sat.
“Here. I’m sitting. I’m practically furniture. Tell us.”
Cameron rubbed Jessica’s shoulder.
Mom’s eyes stayed on him.
“I would’ve loved meeting you in May. Or April. Or any Sunday you weren’t working.”
He took his hand off Jessica.
“I wish you’d said that then.”
Mom faced Dad.
“Back then, nobody had even mentioned a Cameron.”
Jessica set her remaining shoe on the table. Marlon moved it away from the cake.
“Everyone’s tired,” she said. “Things are coming out wrong.”
“Then help them come out right,” I said.
She looked directly at me.
“I asked you for ONE day.”
“You got it.”
“And now you’re doing this.”
Bernadette sat in the chair Cameron had offered Mom. Her coat slid onto the floor.
Russell picked it up and draped it over the back.
“Jess,” he said. “Let your mother finish.”
My sister pressed her lips together.
Mom put both palms on the table.
“What did you think I was supposed to say in April?”
Cameron looked from her to Jessica.
“Maybe we should let Jess explain.”
Jessica reached for his hand. He gave it to her.
My mother was still waiting for an answer.
My speech
Jessica pulled Cameron a few steps away, close enough that we could still hear her, apparently far enough to count as privacy.
“I told you it would go like this.”
He bent toward her.
She brushed a thumb beneath one eye.
“I just wanted one nice day.”
I wanted to drag my own speech out of my purse and eat it. At least then something I’d said that evening would’ve fed somebody.
Mom started picking foil off the cake.
“Leave that,” Dad said.
“It’ll get on the floor.”
“Gina.”
She put it down.
I stood and went to my sister.
“Come back. We’ll talk quietly. Nobody’s asking you to undo your wedding.”
“You’re making Mom cry.”
“She isn’t crying because I asked a question.”
Cameron stepped closer.
“Liz, this is exactly what she was afraid of.”
I looked at my sister.
She kept her eyes on his collar.
“What was she afraid of?”
“Being caught between people. Having to choose.”
“Between who?”
“Her family and mine.”
Behind me, Bernadette said, “Cameron.”
“No, Mom. We agreed we weren’t doing this to her again.”
Again.
I’d met the man seven hours earlier. Apparently I’d already been terrible company on several occasions.
Jessica pressed her face against his shirt.
He put an arm around her.
“You don’t have to stay if you can’t be happy for her,” he said to me.
I waited for Jessica.
She knew every word in my speech. I’d sent it to her because she’d asked. She’d approved the joke about the Civic and asked me to keep the part about how I’d always answer the phone.
She lifted her head.
“Maybe you should go, Liz.”
There are things your twin can say that nobody else can. She knows where everything is stored.
I picked up my purse.
Marlon reached for it, but I held on.
Mom stood too.
“No,” Jessica said. “Mom, don’t do that. I wasn’t addressing you.”
“You were talking to my daughter.”
“I’m your daughter.”
“I know that.”
Dad put his hand against Mom’s back.
Cameron looked surprised. He’d been prepared for a mother who controlled the room. Ours was searching for the foil she’d dropped.
Jessica came toward me.
“Don’t take everyone with you.”
“I haven’t asked anyone to leave.”
“You’re doing that face.”
“Which face?”
“The one where I can’t do anything right.”
I wanted to tell her she was doing an impressive amount wrong without any assistance from my face.
Instead, I took the folded speech out of my purse.
She reached for it.
I folded it smaller and put it away.
I couldn’t get back the minutes I’d stood in front of that room, assuring everyone that my sister would never have to do anything alone.
But she wasn’t getting a second copy.
She pulled Cameron’s jacket tighter around herself and walked into the side room.
Cameron followed her and shut the door.
The envelope in my purse
Mom went after them.
Dad caught her hand.
“Give them a minute.”
“No. They’ll go home thinking whatever they think.”
She knocked.
Jessica opened the door with Cameron behind her. Mom stayed on our side of it.
“If I’ve hurt you,” she said, “tell me how.”
Jessica rubbed her forehead.
“Can you hear yourself? You can’t even say you’re sorry without making me explain.”
Mom’s lips moved without a sound.
I stepped beside her.
“She just found out you were married.”
“And now the whole evening is about her.”
The guests nearest us stopped talking.
Mom studied the fabric she was wearing. She’d bought it after sending Jessica pictures of three others, each one rejected for a different reason.
“I’m sorry this is happening tonight,” she said.
Jessica nodded.
That nod nearly finished me. My twin was accepting an apology she hadn’t earned while our mother stood there trying to pay an unknown bill.
“What would you like me to do?” Mom said.
“Just stop. Let it be a nice day. Tell them we’re all fine.”
“Who?”
Jessica’s eyes moved past her to Bernadette.
Cameron folded his arms.
“Your mother doesn’t have to say anything she doesn’t mean,” he said to Jessica.
It sounded decent. He even looked decent. That somehow hurt worse.
Mom turned toward Bernadette.
“I never wanted to cause trouble between our families.”
Bernadette stood.
“Gina, please.”
Jessica put a hand on Mom’s arm.
“See? We can leave it there.”
I pulled Mom away. Gently, but I pulled.
“No.”
“Liz.”
“No, Mom.”
Jessica looked at my purse. The corner of the envelope stuck out beside my speech.
“Can you at least put that with the gifts before you leave?”
The check was inside a card I’d chosen with Marlon. I’d written that she should order room service at least once and not calculate whether pancakes were worth it.
I had calculated those pancakes for her. We’d put money aside for months.
“You want the card now?” I said.
“I’m trying to finish up.”
Marlon came beside me.
“Keep it in your purse.”
Jessica’s face changed.
“Oh, so now there’s a punishment.”
Mom covered the envelope with her palm.
“Don’t do that, Liz. You promised her.”
Even then. Especially then. Mom could be standing under a falling piano and remind you to thank whoever polished it.
I almost handed it over.
I wanted this to stop. I wanted Mom in our car, shoes off, with something ordinary to complain about.
Jessica held out her hand.
“Please don’t make one more thing ugly.”
Behind her, Cameron nodded. He thought the money was another condition we’d placed on loving her.
Mom wiped her cheeks.
“Just tell me what I should say.”
Jessica opened her mouth.
I put the envelope back in my purse and took out my phone.
The message Mom sent
I found the message by the photograph of the dress.
Jessica leaned toward the screen.
“What are you doing?”
“Letting Mom finish.”
I pressed play.
Mom’s voice came out of my phone, a little too loud.
“Cameron, it’s Gina. Apparently you work every hour God sends.”
He dropped his arms.
“Come hungry whenever you get a minute. No occasion. I’d just like to meet you.”
Jessica reached toward my hand.
I moved it away.
“And Jessica, wear whatever dress you want. I married your father in mine. It’s already done its job.”
The message stopped.
Cameron studied the phone.
“When was that?”
“August,” I said.
Jessica pulled the jacket off her shoulders.
“She knew you were recording.”
“I asked her to,” Mom said. “You said he’d hear it.”
Cameron took the phone when I offered it. He read Jessica’s reply.
“Why keep this recording from me?”
“It wouldn’t have helped then.”
“Helped with what?” Mom asked.
Bernadette put her glasses on.
“Jess told us you wouldn’t come to their wedding unless she wore your dress.”
Mom’s fingers covered her lips.
“She said you told her she could have a new dress or her family there. That Liz backed you up.”
Dad sat down.
Jessica looked at me.
“This is why I wanted everyone speaking separately.”
Cameron held the phone toward her.
“She said wear whatever you want.”
“That was AUGUST.”
“What did she say before May?”
Jessica looked toward the door.
I stood between her and it.
“Call her a liar,” I said. “To her face.”
“Liz, stop.”
“Tell Mom you invited us.”
Her mouth opened.
Mom waited.
Jessica sat on the chair by the door, still holding Cameron’s jacket.
“I didn’t invite you.”
Bernadette took off her glasses.
“Then what have we been forgiving?”
Jessica pressed the jacket against her knees.
“I thought if today went well, it wouldn’t matter.”
I wanted to fling the phone across the room. Instead, I took it from Cameron and put it away.
Mom pulled out the chair opposite my sister.
“It matters to me.”
The two mothers
Jessica began talking before Mom could sit.
“You’re acting like I planned some enormous thing. We decided to get married. I wanted something that was mine before everybody had an opinion.”
“You could’ve told us afterward,” Dad said.
“Now I KNOW.”
Bernadette moved beside Mom. Russell stayed behind his wife’s chair.
Cameron stood next to Jessica. He didn’t touch her.
“When my mother asked where yours was,” he said, “you cried.”
“I was upset.”
“You said she’d chosen a dress over you.”
“Because I couldn’t say I hadn’t told her. Your mom had been so good to me.”
Bernadette’s hand closed around her glasses.
“My kindness didn’t depend on that.”
Jessica cried then. Properly. Her shoulders moved, and she pressed Cameron’s jacket against her lips.
I nearly reached for her.
Marlon put his hand on mine beneath the table. He didn’t hold me back. He just left it there.
Jessica lowered the jacket.
“At their house, I was just Jess. Nobody asked where Liz was. Nobody told the four-minutes story.”
Dad looked down.
I wanted to argue that I hadn’t invented our birthday. But Jess had been carrying something I hadn’t known about, and for one second I let it belong to her.
Then Mom said, “You could’ve asked me not to tell that story.”
“I wanted no discussion.”
“So you told them I refused to come.”
Cameron handed Jessica a napkin; she used it to dab at her nostrils.
“It got bigger. Every time I thought about telling you, there was more to explain.”
“You let me hug your mother today,” Bernadette said. “I thought she’d changed her mind. I thought she was making an effort.”
“She was making an effort,” I said.
Jessica looked at me.
“You could help me here.”
I kept my hand under Marlon’s.
“Tell them what I knew.”
She gave a headshake.
“Liz.”
“Tell them.”
Cameron pulled out the chair next to his wife but didn’t sit.
“You said your sister called you selfish.”
“We’ve called each other worse than selfish.”
“About marrying me.”
Jessica looked at the envelope in my purse again.
I pushed it down.
“About marrying me,” Cameron repeated.
“No,” she said.
“Did she know about me?”
Jessica covered her face.
Mom leaned over the tabletop to pull her hands down.
“Answer him.”
“No. I hadn’t told her.”
The remaining guests near the table could make out every word. Nobody pretended to rearrange a centerpiece anymore.
Bernadette stood.
“I owe both of you an apology.”
Jessica grabbed her wrist.
“Please don’t make a thing out of it.”
Bernadette eased her hand free.
“I’ve been making a thing out of it since May.”
She turned toward Mom and me.
“I thought you were cruel to her. I said so in my own house. I’m sorry.”
Russell nodded.
“So did I.”
Mom wiped her face with the napkin she’d been twisting all night.
“I’d have shown up in my pajamas,” she said. “One call. That’s all it would’ve taken.”
Cameron crouched beside Mom’s chair.
“I’m sorry I told Liz to leave.”
He looked at me when he said it.
I nodded. That was all I could manage.
Jessica put her heels on the floor and tried to get her feet into them.
“Can we go now? Everyone knows. I can’t stand sitting here anymore.”
Mom held out a hand.
Jessica stopped.
“Not yet,” Mom said.
My sister looked almost relieved. She took Mom’s hand.
Mom held it while she spoke.
“Tell the people still here that we weren’t invited. I won’t have them leave thinking we stayed away.”
Jessica tried to pull back.
Mom let her.
Cameron stood beside his wife.
“Tell them.”
The people by the door
Jessica stood with one heel on and one off.
She tried to address Bernadette first.
“No,” her mother-in-law said. “Your mother asked you.”
Mom kept her hands in her lap.
Jessica turned toward the relatives waiting near the door. The DJ had stopped packing his equipment.
“May was our wedding, not today.”
Her voice broke.
Nobody helped her finish.
“My parents and Liz knew nothing. They received no invitation from me. They didn’t refuse to come.”
One of my aunts covered her lips with a hand.
Jessica looked at Cameron, but he stayed beside her without speaking for her.
“What I said about Mom’s dress wasn’t true.”
Mom bent forward and cried into both hands.
Dad knelt beside her chair. His knees were going to charge him for that, with interest.
He held her while she cried.
I sat beside them, and Mom reached for me without lifting her head. Her fingers found my wrist.
“Don’t give her the check,” she whispered.
“Mom.”
“No. You can keep a promise to somebody who tells you what you’re promising for.”
Jessica heard her.
“So that’s it? You’re taking back your gift in front of everyone?”
I opened my purse.
The envelope had a dent where I’d gripped it.
“Yes.”
“It’s our honeymoon.”
“It’s twenty-four hundred dollars Marlon and I saved.”
“You said we could count on it.”
I took out the check.
$2,400.00.
I’d written both zeros carefully that morning. I didn’t trust banks with my usual handwriting, which resembles a prescription for something no longer legal.
I tore through my signature and put both pieces back in the envelope.
Jessica turned toward Bernadette.
“We can’t make the trip without it.”
Bernadette picked up her coat.
“Then you’ll have to change the trip.”
Russell took the gifts Marlon had been carrying. He left mine with me.
Cameron helped Mom stand.
“Can I call you tomorrow?” he said.
Mom wiped under her eyes.
“You can call me yourself.”
He nodded and took out his phone.
This time, he saved the number while she stood beside him.
The hall door
Marlon took our coats to the car.
Dad carried Mom’s cake. She’d tried to abandon it, but he picked it up and said he’d spent too many years married to her to start wasting cake now.
She laughed through her nose. A terrible little sound. I loved it.
Bernadette hugged her at the door.
“I’m glad I said something.”
“So am I,” Mom said.
Jessica stayed near the table with Cameron. He was speaking to her without lowering his head to shield her from the room.
She kept trying to take his hand. He kept his hands in his pockets.
I put my speech beside the torn check. There would be no photograph of us holding each other’s bouquets before we went home.
That hurt. I wasn’t going to pretend it didn’t.
Mom touched my cheek.
“You gave a lovely speech.”
“I oversold the product.”
She laughed again, and this time it sounded like her.
Then Dad opened the door for her, and they went out together.
I was putting my phone away when Jessica came over.
Her shoes were dangling from her fingers again.
“Are you really leaving like this?”
“Yes.”
“You played that message just to embarrass me.”
“I played Mom’s invitation.”
She glanced toward Cameron. He stayed by the table.
“At least leave the card.”
I took it out. The room-service joke was inside, beneath everything I’d written about loving her.
I removed the pieces of the check and gave her the card.
She opened it immediately.
“Liz. You promised that money.”
“You promised six weeks.”
I put the envelope in my purse and walked outside.
If this one stayed with you, share it with someone who’s always been expected to smooth things over.
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