Epilogue

By that winter, favorites had been picked. Karla had married you and put you on hormones. Joshie was attending to Cassie, who was weeks away from marriage to Ray. That left Robin and Carrie vying for John. And John was the only one truly undecided.

So they flipped for it. A ring wouldn't change anything. And they were both pregnant now with John's babies. So it was a truly ministerial thing. But then ... it wasn't, at the same time. Carrie called heads, and Robin spun the quarter, and both of them watched, as it spun for what felt like forever, until it landed on ...