I just didn’t recognize it.
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As the wedding approached, Claire grew stranger.
One evening, the four of us were sitting around my parents’ dining table eating pot roast when she suddenly set down her fork and looked directly at me.
“You shouldn’t marry him, Emma.”
My mother froze with her wineglass halfway to her mouth.
At first, I laughed because I thought she had to be joking.
“What?”
Claire didn’t smile.Weddings
“I mean it.”
Heat rushed into my face.
“What is wrong with you?”