Just Because You Asked: The Infamous Proposal Story

How I became engaged to be married is perhaps the best story ever, all biases aside.

I'm afraid I can't do it proper justice after nearly twelve years and, truth be told, my brain wasn't really capable of coherent thought by the time it was over, so I've depended on a lot of cutting & pasting from my original spew about it back in 1999. Get comfy, my friends, and let me tell you a tale:

It was Thanksgiving weekend. My dear boyfriend and I were heading over to his brother's house where the fami...