My high school sweetheart proposed to me ten years after prom – but just before the vows, he leaned in and whispered something about my father that made me freeze.

not running,” I said. “I just keep thinking about prom night.”

Something had been stolen from me.

“Bad timing for that memory.”

“Or perfect timing.”

He smiled, but I saw an emotion flicker in his eyes, one I hadn’t been able to name in the three years since he came back.

Behind him, the church was packed.

Hundreds of people I half knew.

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