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I had just gotten rid of a boyfriend who had had someone else on the side willing to give him all the things he had been trying to get from me for months. My sister's best friend's wedding was three weeks away and I had promised to pretend to be engaged at the wedding to some guy I barely knew just to make his old girlfriend jealous. Every night, I prayed for someone: "Dear Lord, please bring someone to me who is tall, blonde, blue eyed, with a perfectly straight nose, thin but muscular, honest, caring, funny, and above all, a gentleman." Little did I know that that exact person (everything but the perfect nose) waited for me in the lobby, outside the wedding reception. On the other side of the reception hall, there was a bar, where Marty was on his third day of celebrating his 21st birthday. Both my sister and the bride had graduated with him, so when my sister saw him, she brought him to the reception, and consequently, introduced him to me. From that moment on, I totally ignored the man I was supposed to be with. From that moment on, there was never another man. The summer before my last year of college, he asked me to marry him. The following summer, we were married, and so it goes.... |