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\u201cDavid! Darling, come here! You\u2019re missing the toasts!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sarah\u2019s voice rang out, crystal clear and performatively joyous. I turned to see my wife standing in the center of the garden, bathed in the soft glow of fairy lights. She was wearing a flowing pastel dress designed to accentuate the five-month swell of her stomach. She looked radiant. She looked like the Madonna. She looked like the most expensive fraud I had ever invested in.<\/p>\n

I adjusted the cuffs of my bespoke suit, masking the tremors of adrenaline that had been coursing through me for hours. \u201cComing, my love,\u201d I called back, my voice a carefully honed instrument, capable of masking the hurricane within.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDavid! Darling, come here! You\u2019re missing the toasts!\u201d Sarah\u2019s voice rang out, crystal clear and performatively joyous. I turned to see my wife standing in the center of the garden, bathed in the soft glow of fairy lights. She was wearing a flowing pastel dress designed to accentuate the five-month swell of her stomach. She…<\/p>\n

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