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Jessica Miller seemed perfect on paper: blonde, bubbly, and supposedly head over heels for my thirty-two-year-old son. Jessica Miller seemed perfect on paper: blonde, bubbly, and supposedly head over heels for my thirty-two-year-old son.<\/p>\n

As a fifty-eight-year-old widow who\u2019d raised David alone after his father died when he was twelve, I was just grateful to see him happy.<\/p>\n

The wedding had been a lavish affair at the Rosewood Country Club, Jessica\u2019s family sparing no expense. Three hundred guests, a ten-course dinner, an open bar, and Rick Brennan as the photographer, the most sought-after wedding photographer in Dallas.<\/p>\n

I remembered thinking how lucky David was to have in-laws who could afford such extravagance. My teacher\u2019s pension certainly couldn\u2019t have covered it.<\/p>\n

But now, staring at Rick\u2019s business card in my trembling hand, I realized that \u201cluck\u201d might have been the wrong word entirely.<\/p>\n

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Jessica Miller seemed perfect on paper: blonde, bubbly, and supposedly head over heels for my thirty-two-year-old son. Jessica Miller seemed perfect on paper: blonde, bubbly, and supposedly head over heels for my thirty-two-year-old son. As a fifty-eight-year-old widow who\u2019d raised David alone after his father died when he was twelve, I was just grateful to…<\/p>\n

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