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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

— Leonardo da Vinci

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My daughter sent me to a boarded-up country church on the morning of her wedding, then told two hundred guests I had chosen not to come. I was sixty-nine, wearing the blue dress I had sewn for the occasion, with her grandmother’s pearl bracelet around my wrist. When I finally reached the real venue, my daughter looked straight at me and whispered, “Mom, please don’t ruin this.” That was when I stopped protecting her.

  Part 1 The church stood at the end of a gravel road outside Lexington, Kentucky, with plywood over two windows and weeds growing through…

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At thirty-one weeks pregnant, I was standing beside our kitchen island when I showed my husband the dating profile my coworker had found under the name “John.” He stared at his own photograph for three seconds before saying, “That could be anybody.” But when I asked him to unlock his phone, he pulled it against his chest and said, “I’m not living in a marriage where we inspect each other.” I picked up my pillow and walked toward the guest room before he finished the sentence.

  Part 1 “Claire.” I kept walking. “Claire, come on.” The hallway from our kitchen to the guest bedroom was only twenty feet long, but…

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