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Chapter Twenty-Six
Kimberly
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“We’re a dream team, aren't we?" Reese asked just as our grandmother came out modeling a gorgeous dark blue dress for us.
"I don't know if this is appropriate," Gran said.
Reese and I had divided wedding tasks. I'd found the perfect location for the wedding, and Gran was beside herself when I showed her pictures. It had been a miracle that we found a day this June that was available. We'd had to choose a weekday, of course, but Gran said she only wanted her family and close friends and John's. Everyone who cared about them would make time.
Reese was in charge of finding stores with appropriate dresses. This one had a wide variety of evening wear. I loved it. I’d been shopping on Oak Street often but had never come here.
"I like it," Reese said.
"Ha!" Gran exclaimed. "Like it but don't love it?"
"Well, no," Reese admitted.
"But you still have a few options in there," I added. This one looked stiff somehow. It was all organza, but it wasn't Gran—it was too pompous.
Gran frowned. "I'll go back and change."
The sales assistant nodded and disappeared in the back with Gran.
"I still think she'd look good in white," Reese said.
I chuckled. "Don't start that conversation again."
Gran had insisted she didn’t care about bridal shops. “Wearing white at my age would look ridiculous,” she’d said.
Reese shook her head. "No, don't worry, I won't. I'm so happy for her."
"So am I."
This was a dream I didn't even know I had—to come dress shopping with my grandmother for her wedding. For as long as I'd lived, she'd been on her own. I remembered as a kid thinking she deserved love as much as anyone else, but somehow I never thought it might happen for her. Yet it did.
