we woke up in a single bed in the room where your grandmother died your friend came to do your hair i hid in a room out of sight and then i rode to the national hotel in the lada with your brother and i have never felt more alone in my whole life you showed up about ten minutes after us in your uncle s car with your mother when you walked through the lobby in your white dress all those tourists jaws dropped to the floor then we took all our photos out in the courtyard that s when i looked at you and told you that i would call you my wife then we all piled in to the car and drove to havana vieja the table had been set and all of our guests were on their way and then it rained like it hasn t rained for a thousand years such a foreshadowing of our love on the wedding day then it rained like it hasn t rained for a thousand years and i have never felt more alone in my whole life