‘Will you marry me someday?’” I smile big at everyone as I remember this, and tears start streaming down my face. “And I yelled back to him, ‘YES!’ And so he said that, if people asked, I could tell them that we’d been secretly engaged for the past twelve years. And so”—I close my eyes for a second and think, Here goes nothing. I open them and look straight at Phillip—“you will probably all think I am very crazy, but I had to say YES again tonight!”
