Thirty days to forever
“Thirty days to find a husband. That's insane, right? Tell me that's insane.”
“It's certainly unconventional,” he allows, gently enough that I almost believe it's a kindness and not just a fact. “There is no approved list, no shortcut. It has to be real — filed, witnessed, provable if it's ever challenged, and given what's at stake, it will be challenged.”
“Great,” I say. “On top of finding a husband in a month, I have to convince a courtroom it's real.”
“I'm sorry,” he says, and he sounds like he means it, which is the only reason I don't cry right there in the chair that's too big for me.