They say what preoccupies your mind by day will invade your dreams by night. Coupled with my best friend's teasing encouragement—and, let’s admit it, my undeniable admiration for Samuel—I found myself dreaming of him as I slept.

In the dream, there was no catastrophe, no derailing of plans. Yosef and I went through with the wedding as scheduled.

Wearing the wedding gown I'd painstakingly sewn with my own hands, I stepped onto the red carpet amidst a crescendo ...