As most women thought of awakening on their wedding day, full of blissful joy and hopefulness to the union ahead, I had been in thought of this very morning for the last several months since being in Warren’s focus. I wondered if I would awaken with the ability to tell the change from within me and the gift he now held with him or if there would be pain or pleasure-bliss or regret. But instead, as I awoke this morning, a woman wed in the eyes of the law and her heart full of love for this very exchange of matrimony that had come to be by force, I was now in a state of happiness I wasn’t aware existed. It originated in childlike wonder built in fearlessness and a sense of excitement similar to that of a domesticated animal meeting their owner once more.
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