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Mother,\u201d Robert said as we approached. His voice didn\u2019t rise in greeting; it plummeted in disappointment. \u201cYou\u2019re\u2026 here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy wedding day, Robert,\u201d I said, leaning in. I smelled expensive cologne and the faint, acrid scent of anxiety.<\/p>\n

Before I could embrace him, Tiffany stepped between us. She moved with the aggressive grace of a swan protecting its territory. Her eyes\u2014cold, predatory blue\u2014scanned me. She started at my sensible orthopedic shoes, the ones necessary because of the shattered tibia I\u2019d suffered in Beirut in \u201989, and traveled up to my simple faux-pearl earrings. She didn\u2019t look at me as a person; she looked at me as a smudge on a camera lens.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobert,\u201d she hissed, her voice a low frequency weapon designed to shatter confidence. \u201cLook at her. We discussed the aesthetic. This is\u2026 unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mother,\u201d Robert said as we approached. His voice didn\u2019t rise in greeting; it plummeted in disappointment. \u201cYou\u2019re\u2026 here.\u201d \u201cHappy wedding day, Robert,\u201d I said, leaning in. I smelled expensive cologne and the faint, acrid scent of anxiety. Before I could embrace him, Tiffany stepped between us. She moved with the aggressive grace of a swan…<\/p>\n

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