Dance With Me (44 page)
In the center of the stage, Laurie stood tall and proud, and then he bowed.
“Go to him,” Caroline whispered and pushed Ed forward. He went. He didn't go backstage, just took the stairs on the side and went forward to the middle, to where Laurie had turned to greet him, beaming like the sun.
The crowd sat down, and the lights lowered again, shifting to the soft tones they'd agreed on for their dance.
“Ready?” Laurie asked, still smiling as he put his shirt back on.
The opening strains of a tango began, and Ed smiled back as he took Laurie into his embrace. “Ready,” he said.
And they danced.
ON THIS DAY
the eleventh of October
in the year twenty eleven
in the beautiful city of
Des Moines, Iowa
at four o'clock in the afternoon
at the First Unitarian Church
Laurence Albert Parker
son of Albert and Caroline Parker
and
Edward Howard Maurer
son of Annette and Richard Maurer
were joined forever in marriage.
May their future be filled with happiness,
and may they never forget that above all
they should enjoy the dance
and always dance together.
THE END
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Heidi Cullinan
Heidi grew up in love with story. She fell asleep listening to Disney long-playing records and read her
Little House On The Prairie
books until they fell apart. She invented stories of witches and fairies and enchanted trees and spent hours imagining the lives of the settlers who had inhabited the homestead log cabin and two-story late 1800s home on her family farm. She created epic storylines for her Barbies until age ten and then started writing them down. Her first novel,
The Life and Times of Michelle Matthews
, was published when she was twelve in the school anthology and took up nearly half of it.
Though Heidi continued to write novels through high school, she stopped in college, deciding it was time to grow up and do something meaningful with her life. When Heidi ended up in grad school to become a teacher, she rediscovered her love of romance novels. She began to write again on the side, and when she quit teaching to have her daughter, she took up writing with more seriousness.
Eight years and many million pages later, Heidi has learned a lot about writing, more than she ever wanted to know about publishing, and most importantly, finally figured out that writing IS the meaningful something she wants to do with her life. She has been a member of many writing organizations including Romance Writers of America and moderates on Jennifer Crusie's online reader and writer forum.
A passionate advocate for LGBT rights, Heidi volunteers as often as she can for One Iowa and donates with her husband as a monthly partner to the Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal.
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