My In-Laws Threw Me Into the Rain

while I stood in the rain now watched them leave in silence.

When the ballroom doors closed behind them, the room remained frozen.

I stood on the stage beneath the lights, my heart pounding so hard I thought the microphone might catch it.

I had imagined this moment for months.

I had imagined triumph.

But triumph was not what came.

What came was grief.

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