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94 My betrothed lifted the small wooden box that my mother had carried as a wedding gift and kept it on her head so that six hundred people could see it. "Let's find out what kind of poor surprise my future sister wears," Vanessa announced, smiling beneath the enormous crystal chandelier. Several people laughed before eventually opening the box. I was less than two meters away and, for the first time since I knew her, I found no one way to convince me that it was just stress.