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The wedding felt like a blur and a dream. In some ways I felt like I wasn’t really there in the first place in other ways I felt like I was more awake than I’d ever been. It was the most terrifying feeling standing at the entrance of the door waiting for the doors to be opened to walk down the aisle, my dad squeezing my hand for support. And then it opened and everyone in the benches disappeared, the music disappeared, my thoughts disappeared, the pastor disappeared. All I focused on, all that mattered was my best friend dressed in a suit looking at me in awe and amazement and seeing the fear that he felt washing away just as mine was as well. And for some reason in that instant I felt calm and instead of that lightheaded feeling I’d felt I walked confidently, assured of my de...

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