The night before my wedding, my mom handed me a cup of tea “to calm my nerves,” and my eyes grew heavy. Through the haze, I heard my sister scream, “Cut all her hair off, or you’ll lose me forever!” My parents chose their golden child. I woke up bald on my wedding morning, wearing my wedding dress. They told me to cover it, not to make it a big deal. But when the chapel doors opened, the whole room went silent, and they panicked.
The chapel doors swung open, and the hush hit like a wave. Two hundred people had been talking a second…