"I had a dream," Ed started to tell Omaha it turned into a nightmare. Perhaps, it was Omaha getting married that started the whole thing. Still, he awoke in a sweat thinking what would really happen if something did happen to Betty.
Now he felt, Omaha would think he was crazy. "I-I have always wanted a family." He didn't mean to sound pitiful about it. "When Ollie was born, I didn't know what to do. I was young and..and his mother was." He hated to think of the ugly thought of what happened to her after he was born. "Anyway, I was left with him and I knew he wouldn't have a very good life with me. I was hoping, he would find a family, but he never did."
Ed pressed his lips tight, wondering if he'd envied Ollie after all when he found Betty. But then he reminded himself, he was the one who found Betty for him, to take Ollie in.
He shook his head, thinking that wasn't even what he was after at the time. Evidently, Betty never met a stranger she didn't like. She'd been kind to Ed. And he couldn't look back now. It was time to go forward and be the man he should be. After all, Omaha was his best man at this small affair, down at the park by the river.
Betty's children were here and so was Ollie and his girlfriend. It might have been a potluck to others, maybe a family picnic, but he was marrying Betty today.
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