My Sister-in-Law Said Women Like Me Never Outrank Anyone Then a Marine General Recognized Me at the Wedding

on the railing. “You handled yourself well today,” he said.

“That makes one of us.”

He chuckled softly. “I raised Marines. I know insecurity when I see it.”

I looked out over the water. “You defending Vanessa?”

“No,” he said. “Understanding somebody isn’t the same thing as excusing them.”

That was a very old man sentence. The kind earned over decades.

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