They were married in October, on a day when the leaves were at their peak of color. The ceremony was small—just Elena as witness, and Ruth, and June and Destiny and Patricia and little Hope, who was nearly two and who kept trying to eat the flower petals that were supposed to be thrown instead. Ruth had offered the courtyard of the shelter as the venue, and Mira had accepted, because the courtyard was where she had spent so much of the past two years, and because she wanted to be married in a p...