We’re already it.”

Hannah looked at her hands and said, “What if you want to get married to somebody one day?”

“Then that person is going to have to understand that loving me includes respecting you, and respecting your mother, and respecting the whole life the two of us had before she showed up.

And if she doesn’t, then I don’t want her.”

“Would you cancel another wedding?”

“I’d like to think,” I said, “that next time I’d figure it out before we got to the flowers.”