At precisely five o'clock in the afternoon, the gentle summer tide began its rhythmic rise beneath the timber decking of Pier 58. Under the seventy-two soaring yellow-cedar pergola arches, five hundred guests—family members, university deans, union ironworkers, civic leaders, and the twenty Sterling Scholars—sat in cedar chairs facing the open waters of Puget Sound. Standing at the altar of the bespoke open-air wedding pavilion at the tip of the pier…
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