An unlikely marriage proposal on the ferry
Then he looked at me carefully and said: "Marry me. I need a woman to love and look after."
Most proposals involve some build-up. A dinner. A ring. At a minimum, knowledge of each other's names. This one was offered like a perfectly reasonable solution to a logistical problem, sandwiched between existential corner analysis and what came next, which was a spirited attempt to guess my nationality.
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