” I lowered my eyes and tried to vanish into the ground in shame. What must the girl be thinking? “Hi Paisy,” a melodic voice just inches from m...y ear startled me, and before I knew it, I felt myself hugged, tightly pulled against the girl’s body, “it’s so nice to meet you.” I didn’t want to appear rude, and so I pulled myself together and replied politely, “Hi Natalie, nice to meet you too.” “Natalie just came over and agreed to do some photos together with you. I think you’ll look lovely. We played hearts for several hours, then about 2 o’clock in the afternoon Sarah went home, and that left Kathy and I, plus Kathy’s brother, a couple of years younger, by ourselves. Her brother decided he wanted to go outside and play, and then the two of us were left alone. We talked for a while, then Kathy asked me if I wanted to play some more cards. Normally I knew, they played canasta or hearts, but with just two of us, that were more or less out of the question. She thought. As I look at myself in the mirror I can't help but look at my most apparent feature; my height. I've always been one of the shortest guys ever since pre-school and with my scrawny and quite feminine build I've also been the subject of bullying as far back as I can remember. Enrolling into middle-school didn't help as I didn't know how to control and handle my emotions, so I lashed out at my teachers. This created a lot of issues for me as I've had counseling for most of my predulescent life. “It’s your first wedding. It’s not my first, not even my hundredth. And you,” he poked Eric on the chest, “host the rehearsal dinner. Is 7:00 a good time?”“Okay. We’ll call you if there is a problem.” Well, with the two of them and Claire, they had three of the ten who would be in the wedding party.“If Mom, Dad, and Rachel can’t come,” Eric said as they walked to the car, “it will be Friday night, not seven p.m., which is the problem.” The weather had turned clear and warm. That is to say that.