of attention.) What does he say when he wants to embarrass somebody? (He laughs first. Then he says something mean. Then he says, “I’m just kidding,” so if you get upset, you look crazy.)
Edward listened to all of it. He nodded slowly.
“And the mirror thing,” he said. “He said that to you exactly? ‘When was the last time you even looked at yourself in the mirror?’”
“Exactly.”
“Okay,” Edward said, and wrote something down in the little notebook he always carries in his shirt pocket.
“Why are you writing that down?”
“No reason,” said Edward.
The week before the wedding, I almost backed out.
I went shopping for a dress with my sister, Kate. It was a disaster. I tried on eleven dresses at the mall. Every one of them looked wrong. Too tight. Too short. Too young. Too old. In every single fitting room mirror,
