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Chelsea Hargis’ Winning Entry
Hello my name is Chelsea Hargis, and my fiance Michael Heater and I
have been together three years in March.
On Dec. 25, 2017, my now-fiance Michael Heater and I woke up like any
normal morning. OK, it was not exactly normal because it was Christmas
Day, and our 4-year-old daughter was excited to open presents.
After all of the wrapping paper had settled down, Mike told me I had one
more present to open and handed me an envelope with a beautiful poem
inside. After reading the poem, I was given a box that I assumed had a gift
in it. Instead, there was a note that read, “Haha gotcha, now turn on the
TV and press play!”
There was a video preloaded onto the screen. In it, Mike turned around
in a chair – very Dr. Evil-style – stroking our cat. As he started to talk, he
revealed he was his evil twin brother Ike Heater, and he had stolen my gift
and poisoned Mike (who, sitting nearby o the couch, pretended to collapse,
which I later found out was his way of inconspicuously being able to be
down on one knee to propose).
the clues were collected, there was a piece of a riddle on each one that prompted
me to read the last words of each which read, “Chelsea, will you marry me?”
Mike was now down on one knee with a ring in his hand I instantly started to cry
(and not a pretty cry either – full-on ugly cry). Instead of saying yes, I asked him if
he was messing with me because this was something I had wanted for a while now.
He said he was not joking and that I still hadn’t given him an answer. I said yes,
of course, and then we shared a kiss and a hug. It was the most elaborate way to
propose I have ever seen. It was so thought out and something I will never forget.
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Our daughter started to yell at the TV because the evil man hurt her
daddy, but soon we led on a scavenger hunt around our house. After all of
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