 “I knew Mike in High school. I dated someone else for most of high school. But that didn’t stop Mike from letting me know how he felt about me. He was always telling me he loved me. I would respond with an “I know.” He must have known my class schedule because as I was walking along between classes he would appear out of nowhere next to me...as we were walking he would tell pretty much anyone that might listen that I was his “future wife.” After my boyfriend and I broke up, Mike and I had only one what you might call “date” together. We went to a fancy romantic restaurant…you may know it…McDonald’s. We went through the drive-thru and ate in the car. Afterwards, he took me home and walked me up to my parent’s front porch. He tried to kiss me, but I declined the offer. He stormed off and “burned rubber” in the street with his car. Why do you think that was? Did he have an urgent over-due library book or something? Anyway, shortly after that we graduated and went our separate ways.
Five years later, Mike tried to call me. The person who answered said “Who is this? What do you want?” It wasn’t me; I’d already gotten married and moved out. It was my little sister. All these years, Mike thought it was me…and that I was still mad at him. I contacted him through classmates.com 28 years later and the race was on after that; we just knew it was right. When he came to my parents house on Thanksgiving Day of 2006, I had my little sister answer the door repeating “Who is this? What do you want?" And now for the proposal…
Mike is a Disney/Disneyland fanatic. I'm a Disneyland fanatic. Yep...we’re both nuts and children at heart. Anyway…the day after Thanksgiving, Mike asked me to go to Disneyland. Let me back up here. In an email to Mike, I once asked him if he ever had a secret wish that he never told anyone about. He told me what it was and asked what mine was. It’s not fair for me to tell you what his was, but I’ll tell you mine. It was to go to Disneyland with someone I truly cared about. Sounds simple and silly, doesn't it? The true meaning of that was that I didn’t want to go anywhere with anyone (love interest) unless they really meant something to me; especially places I loved. So we went to Disneyland and it was very crowded; I think we only went on 3 rides the whole day. Still, I had the best time ever just being there with Mike and being silly. Whenever I had gone to Disneyland in the past with my son, we always stopped by Snow White’s Wishing Well, where you can hear Snow White singing, “I'm wishing...for the one I love....to find me...today.” I always sing along with it. Anyway, Mike knew this. It was getting late and he took me over to the wishing well. I figured he knew this was kind of a tradition for me and wanted to make sure I went there before we left. We both threw coins in and made wishes. Then I bent over with my head inside (this is where the sound comes from) the wishing well singing along with Snow White...little did I know of what was to come. I looked up from my antics and Mike proposed. Being the smart woman that I am, I said yes. I will tell you what our wishes were for. Mine was to be with Mike forever; Mike’s was that I would say yes. When I told my little sister of our engagement, she congratulated me and told me to tell Mike “Who is this? What do you want?”
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