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“Nice! I bet that’s going to be really ro so, aren’t you?”

She glanced down the hall toroo to ask her to marry me” I clamped my hand over my mouth to stifle my yell, and she chuckled and whispered, “Shut up! She’ll hear you”

“I’ured it was just a ! Do you have a ring?”

Yolanda nodded and got up, then went to the coat closet in the hall and returned with her leather jacket She sat on the arm of my chair and pulled a velvet jeweler’s box from an inner pocket, and as she handed it to me, she said, “Tell me what you think”

I lifted the lid to reveal a beautiful, platinue, square-cut ruby was flanked by two dia had an art deco look to it “Oh, Yolanda, it’s just gorgeous,” I whispered

She studied the ring as she asked, “Yeah? You think it’s okay? I kneanted to get her a vintage ring, but I really debated between this one with a ruby, or one with a diamond”

“Youis unique and special, and she’s going to love it”

“God, I hope so I reat taste and knows exactly what she likes And here I a to wear every day for the rest of her life”

“Well, you nailed it, and I’ married!”

I closed the box and handed it back to her, and she returned it to the jacket pocket as she reminded me, “JoJo has to say yes first”

“Of course she’s going to say yes! No question You two adore each other, and this is totallythe jacket in the hall closet, and when she ca the question at the B and B?”

“Yeah, I think so I was planning to ask her on Christure it’ll be more intimate to do it in Napa when it’s just the two of us I’ll just have to find the right moment”

“Speaking of Christet so up in here”

“For sure I was thinking we could all visit a tree lot this Sunday, since you and I don’t have to be at work until four”

“All of us?”