My parents attended Big Ten universities, but I chose a smaller, lesser-known one. They often chastised me for that choice.

• 04/21/2024, 7:10 AM
• businessinsider.com

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I stood in the church's narthex, wearing my white dress with the lace train falling behind me, and grabbed my father's arm. My groom, who graduated from the same small college I did, waited at the altar with his friends.