My Husband's First Wife Died a Saint, Then I Found Her Key novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Her Key
I was married on a Saturday in April, in a garden full of roses I had never once been asked to like.
They were pink and tangled, and they had come up on their own.
Patrick's crew had spent three weeks mending the brick walls around them.
I wore a red silk dress that I had picked out myself, in a shop on Broughton Street, for eighty dollars.
It had no buttons and no high neck.
Nobody had taken it in at the waist.
My tía sat in the front row in a hat the size of a dinner plate, with my mother's wheelchair beside her.
Ivy sat on my mother's other side with her short hair grown into a soft cap and a bakery apron under her good coat.
She had opened the shop in March on the ground floor of the Ardsley, with a line at the door by six every morning.
On the day it opened, she handed me a paper bag of rolls and a brass key.
"It's the key to the office upstairs," she said. "3C. It's yours. The rent is a roll a day."
I had put the key on a chain around my neck, where it lay against my collarbone through the whole ceremony.
The judge from the county seat who married us was a woman of seventy with a bad hip and a loud laugh.
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