“Right over here,” the minister said, interrupting Sam’s preoccupation. “If you’ll just sign the marriage license, we’ll be through here.”

  Oh, boy. He took Del’s elbow and steered her toward the table. “You first.”

  His new bride signed her name in the firm, rounded script with which he was so familiar. Then she straightened and handed him the pen.

  He bent over the legal contract. He blinked as he looked at Del’s signature and started to chuckle.

  She glared at him, balled her fist and hit him solidly in the shoulder. “It’s not funny.”

  “Oh, but it is.” Laughing even harder, he bent and signed his own name, then laid the pen down. “Don’t those look nice?” he asked her.

  The Eyebrow rose at the inane question. “Lovely,” she said dryly.

  “Look closer,” he suggested.

  She shot him a puzzled glance, then focused again on the marriage license. “What’s the big deal?” She glanced over the form, then her gaze drifted down and she read their names. “Are you kidding me?” She was already starting to laugh.

  He shook his head. “My parents named all their children from the Old Testament. It’s my given name.”

  Del was shrieking with laughter and the minister was regarding them as if they might need to be hauled away in straitjackets. Robert, Evvie and Aurelia hurried over to examine the license, and a moment later they all were laughing like a pack of hyenas.

  “What are the odds…?” Del was still chuckling.

  He shook his head. “No way could this happen again in a million years.”

  And as he took his new bride’s hand and they started into the rest of their life together, he cast one final glance at the marriage license in his hand.

  Delilah Aurelia Smith, it read. And on the line for her new spouse to sign: Samson Edward Deering.

  ISBN: 978-1-4268-8046-9

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