“Can I ask you something?” I prompt. He nods. “When did you know you loved me?” “Truly?” He laughs to himself. “I think Caroline knew before I did, but it was when she gave you that drawing. I had a very vivid flashback of giving my parents a crayon drawing when I was that young and remembered how my mother looked at me when she accepted it. That’s how you looked at Caroline and that was the moment it hit me that I wasn’t just obsessed with you, but that I loved you. That I wanted a life and a family with you. I decided right then and there that I wanted to marry you, and I contacted a jeweler
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