At the center of our backyard, Tiffany raised an empty wineglass and smiled as though she had wonderful news. “We’re moving the party to Rosewood,” she announced. “This is too homemade for the guests I invited.” The conversation stopped instantly. Seventy-five pairs of eyes shifted toward my wife, Gloria. She stood in the kitchen doorway wearing the apron she had tied on shortly after midnight. A fresh white bandage wrapped two of her fingers, the result of a burn she had ignored hours earlier. Behind her stretched six long tables…
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