Two hours after my ex-husband said “I do,” he walked into my hospital room with his bride still wearing her wedding dress.

Celeste looked at him like he had slapped her.

Outside the hospital room, voices rose in the hallway. Wedding guests had followed them. A groomsman. Celeste’s mother. A photographer still holding his camera. Someone whispered, “Is that the ex-wife?”

No.

Not ex-wife.

Not anymore.

Witness.

Shareholder.

Mother.

Survivor.

Celeste’s father arrived last.

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