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

at her for a moment, my daughter in her wedding dress in the garden light, and I thought about the years I had spent making it easy for her to take things like gifts that were not given freely, and how the ease of that had cost us both something that was harder to name than money.

“Okay,” I said. “Thank you.”

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