“What’s the problem?”

And my daughter, who was twenty-four and who had been on shift for twelve hours, said:

“The problem is what it costs her, and she has literally never once priced it.

“Dad, in ten years, what is the thing people remember about Odile’s wedding?

Right now it’s going to be a good day in the foothills where she married a nice man who makes cabinets.

“If she does this, for the rest of her life, the first sentence anybody says about her wedding is that’s the one where her mother showed up. Manny’s whole family.