AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton

AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton

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AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton
AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton
Chapter 16: A Prison Wedding
Memoir

Chapter 16: A Prison Wedding

The One Who Leaves—playing the flower girl at my parents' prison wedding

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It was early December, about five years after Mom and Dad met. Our whole family was at Mother Infant—my cousins, our grandparents, Mom’s sister Annie from Grandma’s first marriage before Grandpa Press—even my Uncle Terry flew in from England. Mom’s friend Karen was there too with he…

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