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Rough_Rock
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(WARNING: Loooong story ahead. Skip to pictures if you get bored)
Actually it happened on June 22nd, but I''ve been out of town so I haven''t had a chance to update anyone, haha. It was SOOO amazing. So here is some background first:
We have been dating for almost 7.5 years, over half of it long distance. I am currently in medical school and he is a philosophy student. We are both german by heritage and we actually come from the same region of Germany, so after I took my step 1 board exam he took me on a vacation to the Black Forest (the area we both come from). One of the German poets, Goethe, wrote a poem called "Ginkgo Biloba" which he wrote under a ginkgo tree in the gardens of the Heidelberg Castle and dedicated to his beloved. This poem has meant a lot in our relationship and I have a ginkgo leaf necklace and whatnot. In the poem he describes the ginkgo leaf and relates it to relationships...it is about how the leaf is one but two (it is split in half so it looks like two but it is really one). It compares this to a relationship in which one person is really two (the unity theme). My fiance (!!!!) modified the last line slightly to use the verb "we" instead of "me" but here is the poem:
This leaf from a tree in the East,
Has been given to my garden.
It reveals a certain secret,
Which pleases me and thoughtful people.
Does it represent One living creature
Which has divided itself?
Or are these Two, which have decided,
That they should be as One?
To reply to such a Question,
I found the right answer:
Do you notice in my songs and verses
That I am One and Two? (He said that we are one and two)
The Proposal:
My fiance gave me a book to read about Goethe and the history of the Ginkgo poem. Being a med student and cramming for exams, however, so I didn''t actually read through all of it. Had I read 5 more pages, I would''ve known that the trip up to the Heidelberg Castle would include this very important tree. But because I didn''t read it, I was totally surprised when he stopped in front of a tree and declared that this was not just any ginkgo tree, but THE ginkgo tree. Actually he began the speech with "two important things happened under this tree" and then described Goethe and went on a 10 minute speech tangent. All the time I was saying to myself ''two things...two? OMG he is so going to do it...don''t think about it, just listen to him...OMG I am not ready...what the hell am I saying, of course I am ready...LISTEN, THIS IS THE PRE-PROPOSAL SPEECH''. Hahaha. Then at the end of the speech he whipped out the poem and read it to me, and then he said "and as for the second thing that happened here, I have a question for you" and popped open the box he was secretly holding in his other hand, and I nearly fainted because it was so incredibly gorgeous and I started crying. He asked me to marry him in German (luckily I still remember it enough to know what he said, as if the ring and the kneeling weren''t obvious enough) and I of course said yes.
My first post was about how he was planning this party for July 5th and how I thought it looked suspiciously like an engagement party, and I was right! So not only have I been in Europe for 2 weeks but I then had my engagement party so I really haven''t had any time to post! Anyways, enough about all of that.
The Ring:
We designed it together, sort of, over time. It''s a Vatche X-Prong Engraved ring in rose gold. The prongs are platinum. The diamond is a square cushion that is a little over 1 carat and it''s a D in color
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