Rabbit Remembered

"Well, is that a good reason-?"

"Nelson, no reason is perfect. But then neither are we."

"O.K., I'll buy that." Happiness for her is already rising in him, like water trembling upward.

"I have a serious question. Don't be flip, it matters to me. Ever since I was a little girl I've thought if I ever got married it would be in a church, with all the formality."

Annabelle asks, "If Billy and I get married, will you give me away?"

Says Nelson, "Gladly."

John Updike

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