My heart rattled in my chest. The last time I was given an engagement ring, I ended up throwing it into the ocean. I’d considered pawning it for all of five seconds before deciding I didn’t want anyone’s love story to be tainted by the shitty piece of jewelry that represented the death of my own fairy tale. The box opened with a crisp click, and in front of me was cushioned the most beautiful engagement ring I’d ever seen in my entire life—movies, pictures, and reality combined. It wasn’t just any ring, though. It was the ring that had caught my eye and snatched my soul in a magazine when I
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