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At the Thanksgiving engagement party, Nathan Hall built the stage with his own hands. He told me it was a surprise for me. But when the moment came, the person he led up there wasn't me. It was Joanna Reed, the student he had been sponsoring for five years. Joanna was wearing the white dress I had made, and holding the bouquet I had picked. Nathan said to the whole room, "Joanna has been through too much. Tonight I want to give her a place in this family first." Somebody in the crowd called out that Mr. Hall really had a heart. I sat there and slowly tore my invitation in half. The host tried to save it. "And our bride to be." I stood up and took the microphone, smiling. "The bride to be is dead. All of you made her sick enough to die."