I sat in my car outside the door of a house I never expected to visit, jaw tight, body tense. I had to sneak away from the wedding prep-now set for tomorrow at last, only three days late and so what if it was a Wednesday, weddings didn't have to happen on a weekend, right?-to tackle this task I'd been sitting on for the last little while and just couldn't let go.

I really needed to just drive away and forget about it. Confrontation would get me nowhere, I was positive of ...