Chapter 294: Wedding One, After
DANTE
The reception was loud and long and exactly right.
My mother had flown in from Spain with my aunt and two cousins, who had never met Sedona before tonight and had, within forty-five minutes, decided they loved her completely. This was not surprising; my mother had a gift for making decisions about people quickly and accurately, and Sedona was, by any reasonable measure, easy to love once you'd spent enough time in the same room as her.
Jennifer and my mother found each other by the food table within the first hour. I watched this happen from across the garden, two women who had raised children they were enormously proud of, discovering that they had approximately the same opinions about feeding people and approximately the same conviction that ever
