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How we Met<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sarah<\/strong>: It was an unusually mild February Texas night, I left the door open because I was waiting for a late date to arrive. While I waited, an adorable American Eskimo Dog ran into my apartment, followed by an equally adorable fox of a guy.<\/p>\n

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American Eskimo Dog that brought Jack and Sarah together<\/p><\/div>\n

We talked for a short while, and seemed to laugh a lot! After being an hour late my date then arrived. Well, needless to say it was one of the worst dates I ever\u00a0went on and I vowed not to go on another date for quite some time!<\/p>\n

On Easter\u00a0my family held a very large gathering with a group of their friends from work, and while I decided I did not want to attend, I was forced into the engagement by my sister. She mentioned that a fellow co-worker wanted to see my paintings and was very interested in art.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat? What did you tell him about me?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

My sister shrugged. \u201cThat you don\u2019t have a boyfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t do me any favors,\u201d I told her. I could blame her boyfriend for this \u2013 he was determined to set me up with his brother, and I was equally determined not to fall for it. How weird would it be to go on a double date that included my sister?<\/p>\n

My family was already as huge and bizarre as it needed to be. I\u2019m the youngest of seven in a blended family, which made it possible for two half-sisters and a sister-in-law to share the name \u201cSarah,\u201d a brother and a brother-in-law to share the name \u201cJack,\u201d and don\u2019t even get me started on the name Smith. Plus, almost all of them have kids. Why would I want to add to the confusion by dating my friend’s\u00a0brother? Not to mention how awkward the situation would be if one relationship ended and the other continued.<\/p>\n

Besides, I didn\u2019t have time to date anybody. Easter was coming up, and I was helping get the house ready for the onslaught of relatives. My mom\u2019s house had the biggest yard, and there were more than twenty nieces, nephews, and their friends coming to hunt eggs and have the big pre-Easter lunch on Saturday. The only way this guy could possibly see me was if he came to the Easter party, which would never happen. My brother invited him to come, but I didn\u2019t think he would. Come to a house filled with nearly fifty people to meet a girl whose brother was dating his sister? Give every single member of my family a chance scrutinize, interrogate, and evaluate him? He\u2019d have to be pretty self-confident for that.<\/p>\n

The day of the big Easter party, I was finding serving spoons for eight different varieties of casserole when I looked out the window and saw a burgundy Harley motorcycle roll up the driveway.<\/p>\n

\u201cNope, not interested a Harley rider at all,\u201d I said when my sisters came in to tell me that he\u00a0was really cute and of course he must have come to see me.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, You don\u2019t mean you\u2019re going to put him through all this chaos for nothing, do you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then my dad came inside for a minute. \u201cHe has a nice motorcycle,\u201d he remarked approvingly.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, all right,\u201d I said, and went out to meet him.<\/p>\n

Wow, was I surprised to see it was the same fellow that owned the American Eskimo Dog!<\/p>\n

The night went on and we laughed late into the evening!<\/p>\n

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How He Proposed<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jack<\/strong>: After knowing Sarah for almost 3 years, I thought I had it all figured out, I would make arrangements at our favorite restaurant, order a nice bottle of wine, celebrate with a nice desert, and then ask the girl of my dreams to marry me! All went according to plan until I reached into my pants pocket to learn I had a small hole inside the trousers. I went into panic mode, I went looking under tables, searching the restaurant floor, looking inside the kitchen, the bathrooms, everywhere I thought the ring could be. I thought , “Well, this is just great, how could this night get any worse”, and on the way back to my apartment I had a flat tire. It also started raining and I was soaked to the skin with my suit in ruins. Sarah was visibly upset, though composed, and as I entered the apartment I looked off into the distance and realized I had left the ring on my coffee table so as not to forget! I proposed to Sarah soaking wet and despite my forgetfulness, she still said “yes”.<\/p>\n

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The engagement ring!<\/p><\/div>\n

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