At Sunday dinner, Dad told 23 relatives: “She’s wo…

regularly by then, meeting occasionally for coffee. Our relationship was still fragile, still rebuilding, but it was real.

“Congratulations,” she said, hugging me. “You deserve this.”

“Thank you.”

“I told Marcus I’d only come if I could sit apart from Mom and Dad,” she said. “I needed to be here for you, not for them.”

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