National Arboretum, Washington DC
“In most of the photos, Dad looks worried in his borrowed tuxedo, like there might be all sorts of trouble brewing right outside the frame. But there’s one of the two of them, on the stairs of the catering hall, he’s carrying her in his arms and they’re laughing, at the photographer, at themselves in their ridiculous gown and tux, at the idea that they can do this thing, start a family. A lump forms in my throat and lodges there. You can kind of see who they were back then, innocent and in love, long before kids and a mortgage and rottweilers and cancer and possible (probable) lesbianism.”
-Jonathan Trooper, This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
