I just nodded and waited.

“I was hoping you could do me a big favor for the portraits,” she said.

She took her phone out of her leather purse but didn’t unlock it.

“You’ve got that gorgeous blue silk dress,” Vanessa said.

“The one with the fitted waist and the little pearl buttons.”

I kept that exact dress in a garment bag at the back of my closet.

I hadn’t worn it since a charity dinner three years ago.