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(Our Engagement) A Day Like A Week Like A Month Like A Year
Even though we have only just met, it feels like my boyfriend and I have known each other for much longer.
22/04/2013
Ruth Silbermayr
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It takes us a week to fall in love with each other. Two weeks to get together. On the weekend of the third week, we are sitting on the carpet in my boyfriend’s apartment, holding hands and laughing—both incredulous that it has been only a week since we got together. It could have been two weeks; it could have been a month. Maybe even longer.
He proposes to me after having known me for only four weeks, during a trip to Nanning in Guangxi province. I answer with a non-hesitating yes. My boyfriend is surprised that I don’t ask for more time and that he has asked a girl to marry him after knowing her for roughly a month.
He hasn’t prepared a ring, so I ask him to make one for me. His first attempt at making a ring isn’t very successful. After buying fruit to celebrate our engagement, we therefore look for a café to sit down. We find a hostel, and while waiting for our coffee in the common area, he makes me a DIY ring out of a 10 Yuan bill with a heart on it.
He promises to buy me a real ring in Hong Kong, but for now, I am more than happy with my 10 Yuan engagement ring.
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