Chapter 9 - THE WEDDING VIDEO STOPPED BEING EVIDENCE
After cases closed, venue returned archived footage rights? We had legal copy.
I did not keep watching.
Daniel wanted delete personal copies.
We preserved court archive.
Deleted ours.
No shrine to worst day.
Then photos.
Funny.
Wedding photographer captured moment before accusation.
I was smiling.
Evelyn in background.
Gift box full.
I almost threw photo away.
Then kept one.
Not because her.
Because I looked happy.
That happiness had been real before disaster.
No need let later truth erase earlier emotion.
Then wedding album.
No slap photos obviously.
No gate still.
Just ceremony.
Family.
Daniel and me.
Some people think keeping means denial.
No.
Memory can hold both.
Then years later, someone asked:
“Was that really your wedding?”
I said:
“Yes.”
“Worst day?”
“No.”
That surprised.
Worst day was later when Daniel almost believed maybe I had hidden something because he was still unlearning.
But we worked.
Then best? Many.
May you like
Marriage not one event.
Good.
