He Used Me to Rise, Then Knelt to Beg

I was in the middle of a secured tribute-ledger call with several silent partners when my high school class group,which had been dead silent for a decade,suddenly exploded with notifications.

[Bianca,did you see Serafina's post?She's getting married today!Are you really not coming?]

As the messages flooded in,I realized that Serafina Caruso,the prom queen of our Catholic prep school,was tying the knot.

All our old classmates were attending.

I replied,trying to keep it professional:[Sorry,I'm swamped with work at the moment.]

But the responses were swift and brutal.