Each year, the North Carolina Reading Council holds a Young Author’s Writing Competition. A couple of years before I stopped teaching in 2007, I decided to enter the adult category of the competition. This year, I’ve decided to do the same.
This year’s theme is “Happily Ever After: What’s Your Story?”
This is my story:
Hey there—My name is Deanna,
And you are…? Of course I will
Pray with you. And you want to know if I can
Perform your wedding ceremony, too? Am
I ordained? No. I am not ordained. But I can still perform your wedding.
Love is what matters tonight. The legal stuff can come tomorrow…
Your mom had a stroke on Sunday? She means
Everything to you? Blood is still coursing through her
Veins but her eyes will never open again?...
Enter, now, into this sacred partnership of love. Promise, now, to honor and
Respect one another for as long as you both shall live.
And remember these witnesses surrounding you tonight:
Father, mother, sister, nurses, friends—affirming your new lives together while standing in
the grief of life falling apart…You want
To take home a copy of the vows? Of course I’ll make you a copy…And you’re right. This has been an
Extraordinary event. One that I will not forget…You will
Remove life support after midnight? But you want to say your goodbyes right now? Take your
time. You have much to celebrate. I will come back. And I will stay with your mom until her soul
passes into happily after ever.
What about you, reader? What is your “Happily Ever After?”
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