It was a fall day and Miss WI2B had just signed the lease for a new apartment in the town I lived. Her mother and I had been conspiring for almost two months. I picked out the ring and setting, and had the diamond from her grandmother's engagement ring put in to it.

I was on my knee, and obviously she did say yes. She was very touched that it was a family stone.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.