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Becky brought up the ceremony idea to all of us together a few nights later, the four of us gathered in the living room after Micah had gone to bed, and I watched something genuinely hopeful settle over the room as she explained what she and Mason had discussed on the porch.
"I don't want it to be legally binding," she clarified. "That's not really the point. I'm already married to Adrian, legally, for Micah's protection. This would be something else. A way of saying, publicly, among people who actually matter to us, that what we've built together is real and permanent."
"I like that," Ryder said, leaning forward with more open enthusiasm than I typically saw from him. "Something that's ours specifically. Not borrowed from a tradition that was never built with a family like this i
