The book that I assumed this one to be unfurled in my head: Chloe would haltingly accept the notion that a wedding isn’t just for a man and a woman she would learn that it’s O.K. He taught her the names of the stars.” Just a few pages in, Bobby brings his boyfriend to a family picnic, and there, to Chloe’s consternation, the couple announce their engagement. The girl is Chloe, and one of the men, Bobby, is her favorite uncle: “He took her rowing on the river. The book’s cover features two smiling grooms in skinny-fit suits standing beneath an arbor, and a tiny flower girl, about my son’s age, wearing a bright yellow dress. Recently, my five-year-old son brought home a picture book from our local library called “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” and, when he asked me to read it at bedtime that evening, I felt a profound resignation.
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