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A week after I signed my heart over to Luke, the family had a get-together, to celebrate my cousin Rory’s tenth birthday.
Since my dad owned a nightclub with an enormous back room that was often rented out as an event center, we had the party there on a Saturday afternoon, hours before the bar opened.
Uncle Asher had Rory’s favorite meal catered in and a live band set to play, while Aunt Remy had a cake made for her that was three tiers high.
My dad’s brother and his wife had just retired the year before from their music band they’d played in together, and they were kind of mega-rich now, plus this was basically the first year they’d been truly home for any of their kids’ birthdays, so they had gone all out.
There was supposed to be a wall full of carnival-type booths there to
