Ninety-Nine Weddings, Ninety-Nine Suicides

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At our ninety-ninth wedding ceremony, Gavin's childhood friend threatened to jump off a building for the ninety-ninth time.

He threw down the wedding ring without hesitation, turning to leave.

I grabbed his wrist and begged, "Can we please just exchange rings first? It only takes one minute. No, thirty seconds."

Gavin pried my fingers off one by one, looking at me with utter disappointment.

"A human life is at stake. How can you be so cold and heartless? We can always hold another wedding