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So one Sunday, I did a birthday party for some wild, wild
six-year-olds -- screamers and meanderers. It took me
forever to get home because of traffic, and I was starving.
We had planned to do our Valentine's Day thing that evening, but I
was not in a very Valentines-y place. I walked in the door and Kevin
says, "Let's go geocaching.
Eat a Luna bar." I still don't know why I didn't tell him no.
He hands me the directions for the geocache he wants to find, and we
drive up a few exits to the location: a nature preserve in Clyde
Hill. Kevin's got the GPS, and I just followed blithely along
behind, reading the little plaques under all the plants. I read the
directions, and they looked a little funny. They said, "Once you
find the tupperware container, you'll have to figure out the secret
code inside to truly 'find' this cache."
The trail ended on the lakeshore, under a mossy tree by a little
bench. We started looking (eventually I resorted to the hint, as
everything was muddy and wet and I was not too interested in getting
that way myself). Under a pile of leaves, beneath the mossy tree, I
found the tupperware container. On the top, the "secret code" was
printed: WYMM.
"Damn," I thought. "I am never going to figure that out." I
opened the cache and started perusing the information sheet for
clues.
"Open the box," Kevin said.
I grumbled, but set aside the sheet and opened the small brown box
inside, wondering if it was a microcache. Inside the box was a
clamshell jewelry box. Inside that, a white gold and diamond pendent
-- a locket--shaped like a book.
"Holy crap," I thought, "someone really didn't get the
point of geocaching!"
"Open it," Kevin said, getting a little impatient.
(Now is where I become unpardonably stupid).
Inside the locket, there was a page on which someone had written
"Marry me?"
"Oh my god," I said. "We're ruining someone's proposal! We have to
put it back before they come!"
"No," Kevin said. "It's for you."
Surprise does not begin to describe my response. "Are you kidding
me?" I demanded.
"No. Will you marry me?"
And I said yes. And that's how we got engaged.
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