At 72, I’m Getting Married Again—and My Daughter Thought I Was Wasting Money on a Wedding Dress

nineteen, pregnant, and convinced she understood love. She wore her mother’s old wedding dress because she could not afford another. Her second marriage came at forty-one, after years of heartbreak and responsibility. That time, she simply wore a beige suit to the courthouse and wondered whether romance and certain dreams were already behind her.

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