Luke and I were married in 1941. It was a real wedding in a white church in upstate New Hampshire. With a reception on the lawn of my parents house.

In the photograph, I am standing beside Luke in a reception line. My Mother and my Father are also in the line, as are Luke's Mother and Father. My brother. Luke's sister. My maid of honor. She died last year. Not that we saw each other very often. She lived the life I would have lived if Luke had lived.

But I am Dorothy Abrona McCrae.

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