My Daughter Told Me to Watch Her Wedding on a Livestream Instead of Attending

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She said it had been a joke. That she’d been under pressure. That the lol was just the way she texted, that I was taking it too literally, that I wasn’t accounting for how much stress she was under.

I let her talk. And then I waited again, because I had learned, or was learning, that silence in a conversation with Natalie was not something she could continue reading …