It's really important to me to keep that traditional vow in there, to use the ones that my parents used and my grandparents used.

I started sobbing. I couldn't talk.

We just totally hit it off.

I've seen how everything goes. Just going to the games and dealing with the parents. I think I'm up for the challenge.

My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.