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Professional wedding planning services, $35,000. Honeymoon expenses. Tuskanyany 3 weeks, $35,000.
Total due $70,000. Payment due 30 days. At the bottom, in Cathy’s careful handwriting:
You should feel lucky I’m letting you contribute at all.
My daughter, my only child, was charging me for a wedding I hadn’t been invited to. A honeymoon I’d never even heard about—and treating it like a privilege I should be grateful for. The coffee mug slipped from my numb fingers, shattering against the lenolium floor.
Brown liquid spread across the white tiles like spilled blood, and I stared at it without moving. 27 years of motherhood, and this was what I’d earned. Not a phone call.
Not an invitation. Not even the courtesy of a conversation. An invoice.
I thought about the last time I’d seen Kathy. Christmas dinner 18 months ago at her imposing house in Westchester. She’d greeted me at the door like an inconvenience, her smile never reaching her eyes.
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