Men have read it who proposed and she said no.

What happened afterwards with your life?

My mother told my father no three times.

On the third time he got wasted at the local bar

and basically started pouring his heart out to anyone who would listen.

Mind you, it's a very small village in the Italian Alps

and my father barely spoke Italian, and no one

in the village spoke English, including my mother.

Word got back to my mother about this sad American at the bar, so she went to find him and

she told him that she'd marry him.

My parents celebrated their 44th anniversary last month.

Bro, it's women like this that give hope to the annoying, desperate male characters that want girlfriends in most anime.

She was an art major and I had just joined the army.

We had been lovers since high school. I asked and she said no.

She wanted to get her masters.

We were friends for a while, but we don't talk anymore.

She works as a bartender now, I think. I ended

of getting married to my best friend. We've been married for more than a decade, and we have a five-year-old

son. Oh, I have a story about this. My friend had been with his girlfriend for years, so he decided

he wanted to propose. What he didn't know is that she was also thinking about proposing to him.

He proposed first and she freaked out because she had already set up her proposal and bought a ring.

So she said no.

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