Page 1 of Yours, Now and Always

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CHAPTER 1

AMELIA

What most New York couples do when they decide to get married:

Get engaged.

Plan the wedding and honeymoon.

Apply for a marriage license.

Wait the 24-hour waiting period before the ceremony can take place.

Hold the ceremony and get married within sixty days.

I should have known that’s not what my man does when he decides to get married.

No, in true Gage Black fashion, he:

Day 1: Obtains the marriage license.

Day 2: Waits the 24-hour waiting period (that must havekilledhim).

Day 3: Gets married.

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