Two standing ovations now, my girl. She was collecting them.
Claire had that baby the following spring, a little girl, and she named Mia the godmother. Mia takes it more seriously than anything in her life. She’s saving up, she told me, to buy that baby the best birthday present anyone’s ever gotten, when she’s old enough. She’s ten going on eleven and she’s already planning to be the greatest godmother in history.
And Donna.
I’ll tell you about Donna, because people always ask, and the truth is more complicated than the story wants it to be.
Donna didn’t speak to me for almost a year. She told the family her version — that Mia had “humiliated” her at the wedding, that we’d turned everyone against her, that she was the real victim. Some of the family believed her, for a while. Donna’s always been good at finding people who’ll believe her.
