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You think you know me, you don't know me well at all, at all.

You can't know you.

You don't know me.

You don't know anybody. Would this have been

Would this have been your guys' first wedding together?

Yes, this was the first time I was meeting all his friends from Michigan.

Was he like really excited for you to meet them?

No, I don't think so.

This was something he did all the time, but it was like I picked out my outfit.

I grabbed a little black dress and he said, you're wearing black to a wedding.

I said, it's a little black dress. That's what everybody does. You can't wear that to this wedding.

You're going to embarrass me. Okay, well, what do you want me to wear? You have to wear derby attire.

I said, I don't have derby attire. Oh, because it was like a themed wedding essentially? It wasn't. No, that's just what he said.

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