Marry the One Who Gets There First Summary
Heidi Julavits

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Marry the One Who Gets There First Summary

“Marry the One Who Gets There First” subtitled, “Outtakes from the Sheidegger-Krupnik Wedding Album,” by Heidi Julavits, was first published in Esquire, in 1998. It was also published in The Best American Stories, 1999. The story is set in Stanley, Idaho, at a mountain lodge where a wedding is about to take place. It is a darkly comic tale about love and betrayal structured around the descriptions of thirty-six photographs. Julavits got the idea for...

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