We decided instead of gifts for each other for Christmas that we would take a trip to Las Vegas.  As soon as we got to Vegas, we rented a car to drive to the Grand Canyon for sunset.  One hour after waiting in line for the rental car, we were on our way to make

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I am a diehard romantic and self-admitted cheeseball, so I spent as much of my youth envisioning my proposal as most young girls spend envisioning their dream wedding.  I wasn’t sure exactly how I was going to pull it off, but I knew I wanted it to be over the top: something that involved a fountain

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I’ve had many nicknames: Dewey, Dew, Dewdrop, Dewfuhr to name a few. Matt calls me HoneyDew and swears that he knew he would marry me from the first time he saw me. At a bar. After I didn’t give him my number. He is unabashedly persistent. After about four years of knowing each other, Matt

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I am not paying one bit of attention to Kurt Vonnegut yammering away on a CD playing over the car speakers about some man who lost his country or something like that. And I wonder how in the world Artie is. His mother let it slip earlier in the day that Artie has something to ask

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JD lived in South Carolina and I lived in Indiana while we were dating, and we took turns flying to see each other about every two weeks or so. It was a Saturday morning and he had been down to visit me the previous weekend, so I decided to do an early gym session and

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The day after my boyfriend proposed, he took it back. We’d been dating about nine months when Paul turned to me one night and said, “Will you marry me?”  I loved him, but I was only a junior in college.  My heart did a flip at the unexpected question.  I was scared, thinking it was

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