a student at the University of Virginia and I was attending a seminary in North Carolina. The hardest thing for us to do was to say good-bye each weekend and return to our respective homes to endure another week of classes apart. The last thing I would have wanted was for her to wonder if I really loved her. If she doubted that, she might be open to the advances of other guys. So throughout our engagement I assured her repeatedly that nothing was going to stop me from marrying her. In fact, I gave her a big fat diamond to wear on her finger to prove it. She and I both knew that if I didn’t
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