The Day Before My Sister’s Wedding I Woke Up To Find My Hair Had Been Cut While I Slept

room with unnecessary force and which I caught reflexively, to a delighted teenage cousin, and I found Eric at the bar, and we walked out into the early evening to his car.

You were incredible, he said.

I leaned back and felt the specific exhaustion of a day you have survived with your integrity intact.

I didn’t want to make a spectacle, I said. I just continue reading …