They Said I Would Ruin the Wedding So I Stayed Home and Watched What Happened Next

that my reward for this had been to become so reliably available for the insertion that my family had stopped imagining any other option. I was the option. I was the safety net. I was the floor beneath the floor that everyone stood on without knowing it was there.

I was done being the floor.

“If she marries him,” I said, “she marries him.”

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