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What I love best is the color blocking

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"For the girl that I knew...who'll get hurt, but who learns how to toughen up when she's bruised and gets used by a man who can't love." Those lyrics cut me to the heart when I first heard them because they reminded me so much of the girl that sent the song to me in the first place, who had just escaped an emotionally exhausting and degrading relationship

Jasmine and gardenia is most prominent but a single note does not overpower any of the others

And the best part is there is none of that new-age anxiety or "all eyes on you" feeling that sometimes comes with one's birthday

We're not sure what we love more - that divine blue wedding dress by Harriette Gordon, or the text embroidered veil