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The wedding hall was a symphony of controlled chaos, humming with the clatter of fine china and the heavy, sweet aroma of marigolds and crushed cardamom. Fairy lights draped from the ceiling, flickering like nervous heartbeats against the gold-trimmed walls. you smoothed the heavy silk of her lehenga, the fabric whispering against her skin. From the living room, her father's voice rang out, warm and urgent: "Beta, the baraat will be here any second!" She stepped into her juttis, the soft leather grounding her as she took a slow, steadying breath. A ghost of an old love, a story she thought she had buried under years of silence, tugged painfully at her chest. Shaking the memory away, she caught her dupatta and dove into the swirl of the festivities. Relatives buzzed around her in a blur of…