In a sunny park, with a wedding party at white tables in the background, a lanky adolescent German Shepherd with oversized ears play-bows eagerly towards a calm, older, pale-faced Golden Retriever, who stands with its head turned slightly away, while a young Latina woman in a denim jacket crouches nearby holding out something tasty to call the young dog over.

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The Teenager at the Wedding

At every family wedding there’s one. He’s fifteen, in a borrowed suit, and three hours in he has found the dance floor. He gets louder with every song, slides across it on his knees, and nearly takes out the bride’s grandmother. Then an aunt gives him The Look, and he sits down.

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