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Three to Five If You're Lucky

My favourite, absolute favourite moment of the night, of the whole night was when you started crying and laughing and shrieking all at the same time. Right? That was awesome, you were so surprised, you were like, amazed weren't you? Ashley yammers on, 3 glasses of Rioja deep, while knawing on a mini maple glazed bacon blt. Marsha steps back, letting one of the 3 black clad identical wait staff push through her, traying individual lamb shanks overhead, while another one offers them chimmichuri flank steak on bamboo skewers while yet another one follows behind to pick up the detritus. The noise is cacophonous. Ashley keeps talking, laughing, shrieking herself, while Marsha stands stunned, still reeling from Mickey's surprise proposal an hour earlier as they stood in the driveway, waiting to enter her parent's house for her younger sister's 28th birthday celebration. This is chaos. This is not what she expected. Marsha and Mickey spoke of marriage but she didn't think ...