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Chapter 93: I Walked Myself

Author: Eleanor Vance
last update publish date: 2026-05-01 15:57:34

**Nadia**

I walked myself down the aisle.

That had been the decision I was most certain about and the one that had required the least conversation. My father had offered. Gently, carefully, with the particular awareness of a man who understood he had no standing to push and was offering anyway because that was what fathers did. I had told him I loved him and that I would see him in his seat and that this part was mine.

He had nodded and not pushed.

The aisle was sand.

Not metaphorically. Actual
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