THEY LOCKED YOU AWAY SO YOUR SISTER COULD MARRY TH…

cannot sneeze without newspapers learning about it.

You wear ivory silk with Isabel’s blue ribbon sewn inside the bodice.

Don Ignacio walks you halfway down the aisle.

Then you walk the rest alone.

People whisper about that for weeks.

Let them.

Francisco waits at the altar with eyes that make the room disappear.

Doña Mercedes cries openly and threatens to continue reading …