Day one: One date and 25 years later

Alright guys, here is your first love story. This one is about my parents and how they got engaged.

4 months. That's how long it took for my parents to fall in love and become engaged. They met at Mensa, barely speaking two words to each other for a long time. It wasn't enough for my mom. She started playing bridge with him and some of her friends, because she was too shy to talk to him on her own. In the meantime my Aunt was working on my dad, telling him (barely knowing my mom) that "I could see you marrying her."

January of the next year my mother's apartment building caught fire and she had to move her things. My dad and some other friends came over to help her. He met my grandparents for the first time that night. My grandma teased my mom about the nice quiet guy who "looked like a boyfriend." My dad asked her out that night on their first and only date.

The next weekend, one of my dad's friends asked my mom out. It was Sunday. That Monday my dad came over with a dozen roses and told my mom he loved her. Tuesday he proposed to her. She was utterly flabbergasted. My dad is not an open, flirty guy, his actions are always much louder than his words.

She asked for a week to think about it.

She didn't make it that long. The next Sunday she took a crazy, stupid, totally un-guaranteed chance and told him yes.

They've made it work for almost 25 years. :)

My dad eventually went to my aunt's house to tell her of the engagement. All he said was "If this was Salem, They'd burn you as a witch." He later told my mom that my aunt had levitated almost 4 feet in the air, right up to the ceiling, yelling and hollering the entire way.

And that is how my mom and dad got engaged.

Thank you for reading.

♥, Dulcy

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