'For the first time, I felt not jealous, but replenished, by someone else's love story.' How one writer went from romance-hater to queer wedding obsessive.
I've been to exactly two weddings in my life, and I've thrown up at both of them. I was a sugar-high child at the first one, and a thoroughly drunk adult at the second, so I can't blame the weddings themselves for activating my gag reflex, but nonetheless, the concept of matrimony has left a slightly queasy taste in my mouth.
When I entered quarantine, single and solo, my antipathy toward weddings was extended to happy-couple stories in general. I couldn't stomach theI normally loved, or even so much as hear about a friend's Jane Austen-esque exchange of letters with her crush, without feeling a faint twinge of depression. Then, one Monday in late March, everything changed, and I'm still not sure why.
in which brides Reilly Jennings and Amanda Wheeler got married on a New York City street with an ordained officiant leaning out of an apartment window above them. As much as I wanted to hate Jennings and Wheeler's ineffably charming love story, I just couldn't: by the time the two said "I do," I was crying into my mug.lately, but this felt different: for the first time, I felt not jealous, but replenished, by someone else's love story.
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