It was dumb luck I found the wedding certificate. It was all folded up, stuffed into a folder with a bunch of documents. I wasn’t looking for it. If you can believe it, I was looking for an old set of Ninja Turtle action figures I’d stashed up there, thinking maybe I could sell them on eBay for a couple bucks. Instead, I found the old certificate, which was actually a copy ordered later so my mother could finish the paperwork to get remarried. She looked horrified at the sight of it. Like it was a snake that might bite her. I’m sure she wished she’d thrown it away. At the time, I wished she
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