The Boy Who Stood at the Altar

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The first thing I noticed as I walked my daughter down the aisle was not the flowers, although there were hundreds of them.

It was not the music, either, or the guests turning in their seats, or the way my daughter’s hand tightened around my arm when everyone stood.

It was his shoes.

Polished black leather, planted firmly on the floor at the far end of the aisle.

Inside them, his feet were holding him upright.

Ten years earlier, doctors had told us that might never happen.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.