_____In the photographs, I am holding white roses --
wearing the green wool suit I wore when
I answered the telephones in the thickly carpeted front lobby.
of Brien Randall and Mitchell.

"Brien Randall and Mitchell."

I bought that suit in Filene's Basement.
when the entrance smelled of
hotdogs, new clothes, cleaning fluids and sweat,
and collective hearts accelerated
_____ with the mounting excitement of bargains.

"Brien Randall and Mitchell."

In the photographs, with medieval German buildings in the background,
I was about to be married.

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