The Day I Let Go
On the day of my wedding to Julian, his childhood friend, Wendy, crashed the ceremony. Wendy declared she didn’t have much time left to live and that her only regret was never being able to experience what it was like to get married.
Julian immediately dropped my hand, insisting on having the wedding with her instead.
“Chloe, she’s sick,” he said. “Please sit aside for ten minutes while I go through the ceremony with her.”
The three hundred guests in the audience fell into absolute silence, and my parents trembled with rage.
Amidst everyone’s gaze—everyone waiting to see a joke unfold—I calmly removed my veil and put it on Wendy myself.
“The two of you are so deeply devoted to one anoth