My Parents Threw Away My Wedding Invitation Until They Saw Me Walk Down The Aisle

arch wrapped in Oklahoma wildflowers — Indian blanket, black-eyed Susan, coneflower. The flowers I used to pick on the side of the county road when I was eight, walking home from the bus stop because nobody was coming to get me. I had wanted them because they were mine. Not Lorraine’s, not Shelby’s, not Bartlesville’s. Mine.

Eighty-five people sat in continue reading …