Then she smiled.
“And Dad’s friends were there to help me stand back up.”
I put my arm around her.
For years, Richard’s photographs had been hidden away because remembering him seemed too painful.
Now they were back where they belonged.
And whenever I visit Janet’s house, I see that wedding photograph beside the one from the hospital.
One shows a father holding his daughter at the beginning of her life.
The other shows 11 men keeping their promise to him as she begins a new chapter.
Richard never got to walk Beth down the aisle.
But he made sure she knew she wasn’t walking alone.
If you were Beth, would you appreciate such an emotional wedding surprise, or would you wish Patrick had warned you beforehand?
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