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Short Story: Marrying my best friend

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It had seemed that it would be so easy. It had been my idea, of course! I had come to such a point where I was simply fed up of all the questions from friends and family members about my relationship status – or lack thereof! “Tosin, when are you going to get married? Is there a man in the picture?” And just how many ways are there to answer this question: “Look, I’m trying, OK! What am I supposed to do – just manufacture a husband out of thin air?!” So this was going to be my little joke. I would pose in wedding style pictures with a male friend, and then post the photos on Facebook. I would then teasingly refer to the pictures (quite truthfully): “Me and my best friend!”

I would let everyone jump to the obvious conclusion, without confirming or denying anything, and then a month later, I would finally admit that it had been a joke. Ha ha, how brilliant that would have been! And then from that I hoped that people would finally get the message and stop harassing me. And of course there was only one male friend whom I could possibly ask; that one friend who was always game for a laugh. Sure enough he had appreciated the joke immediately, and he had laughingly agreed.

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