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HOW HE PROPOSED
Nicole: Garry is always full of surprises. We went to dinner on what I
believed was any random date night. When I ordered dessert (yes, I do
eat dessert ... a lot of dessert), the owner of the restaurant brought out
one of my favorite sweet-tooth indulgences - along with a beautiful
diamond ring. Garry recited a poem he had written for me, and
proposed as the entire room of patrons cheered.
HOW I KNEW HE WAS THE ONE
Nicole: Easy ... I’ll never forget the day during our early courting, I
showed up for one of our dates visibly distraught because my garbage
disposal was leaking, and I didn’t know it until water leaked out on my
kitchen floor. It wasn’t easy being a single mom, and when my home
had maintenance or repair issues, I would easily become flustered and
overwhelmed. Garry showed up at my home later that evening with
his toolbox and introduced himself to my daughter as the plumber (as
he had not met my children yet), and he fixed and replaced my garbage
disposal. He completely had my heart that day by his ability to make
everything OK, and calm my rattled emotions over a home repair. 
WHAT WE LEARNED ABOUT EACH OTHER DURING THE
WEDDING PREPARATIONS
Nicole: Wow! Let me start by mentioning this: 2017 was a quite a year.
We each sold our respective homes that we independently lived in
SAVVY I SOPHISTICATED I SASSY
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