Honeymoon in the Off Season

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It had been, they told each other on the airplane, such a wonderful wedding. They said it many times. Too many times. A very nice wedding indeed. Really beautiful. The reception too.

He was a young man named Tom, a young man with ordinary brown hair, with eyes pleasantly weather-wrinkled at the corners, with a kind of collapsible grace. There had been, of course, a bachelor brawl the night before. His head still throbbed faintly. But that was less important than the curious anxiety.

This was his honeymoon. He wanted desperately not to look like a groom. The prize he had won sat beside him. Sara, the prize. Special. People always looked twice, and the more discerning looked at her three times. Alive. A luminescence from within. A prize — and a terrifying responsibility.

Anxiety made him alternate between a kind of heated giddiness and a heartfelt wish that his seat would open up beneath him and drop him into the Carolinas.

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