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• The plans for the wedding grew and matured; Sophie was tireless, checking each detail again and again, putting the fear of Sophie in the whole army of people she'd convinced, persuaded, bullied, cajoled, and blackmailed to make the day as perfect as it could be, according to her lights, and where Sophie led, I followed. As she kept telling me, "This is your wedding, Darling Girl; don't let me make it MY wedding; it has to be what you want, how you want it, so what next?"
• While she busied herself following-through the details we'd hammered-out, she left me to get my home in order, just checking-in with me every day to go over what had happened, what had changed, and what I wanted to do about it. While I was doing that, Rosie, Jimmy and I also labored to make our homes as homey and comfortable as possible. I knew Jimmy was delaying formally asking Rosie to marry him until after Davey and my wedding, but that seemed unfair to me; Rosie needed to have some of what Davey and I had, and Sophie agreed, so a little plotting seemed in order.
• I knew Jimmy was saving to buy Rosie the best, most expensive ring he could find, but Sophie had other ideas; Rosie was a Denham, her favorite niece, and there were any number of Denham family heirloom rings, brooches, bracelets, necklaces, tiara's and assorted sparkly odds and ends various members of the family had left behind over the years stashed in the vault at Denham Hall. Davey wasn't interested in any of it, his mind doesn't work that way; he still relied on and treasured the battered old Timex Mickey Mouse watch daddy had given him when he was a boy, that was what he valued, not those glittering baubles; if it had all been stuffed in a sock and chucked in a closet somewhere it would have made no difference to him, nor to me; I had my own mom's jewellery, and I certainly didn't want some long-dead woman's creepy old ancestral pieces cluttering up my jewel box either.