The first time I got married, I was hungover, grieving, and four champagnes deep before I even walked down the aisle. The second time, I was completely sober and had never felt more present in my life ...

“Often, as soon as one left, another would arrive,” a witness told the author.

I think of “ Intimate ,” the first de Casier song I ever heard, off her debut album, Essentials, which when I focus on her soft vocals reminds me of the funky singles on the only Groove Theory album.