An Hour Before My Wedding I Heard My Fiancé Say He Never Loved Me So I Let the Ceremony Reveal the Truth

and the afternoon light slid across the ceiling in moving bars of gold. I closed my eyes and listened to the machines and felt the pain roll through me in long relentless waves and thought about the vows I had written that morning, the ones I never read, the ones that were still folded in the pocket of a dress I would never wear again.

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