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My Sister Wore My Wedding Dress

My sister wore my dress and married my fiancé. Five years later I bought my family's company — and brought his son to the shareholders' meeting.

Three hundred guests. A church in June. And a groom who was already in another state, because my younger sister was eleven weeks pregnant and my family had decided, without me, which daughter that made expendable. I left with a suitcase and forty-one dollars. Five years later I came back holding the debt of my father's company, a seat at the table nobody could take from me, and a four-year-old boy with my ex-fiancé's eyes — and by then I had learned the one thing that would break all of them: my sister was never pregnant at all.

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Chapters

  1. 1. Eleven Weeks
  2. 2. Forty-One Dollars
  3. 3. The Renewal
  4. 4. The Fifth of August
  5. 5. An Interested Party
  6. 6. A Dad Is a Job
  7. 7. Not Ten. Eleven.
  8. 8. The Nineteenth of September