The Best Wedding Gift You Could Give Me

"The best wedding gift you could give me is not showing up," my stepson said on the dock that Saturday morning, with the deposit envelope still in my hand. I raised that boy from six years old, packed his lunches, taught him to run a boat, and I was paying for every piece of the wedding he was about to have without me. His mother stood four feet away holding the seating charts and never said one word. So I did exactly what he asked me to do.