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A Merry Engagement

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The happy couple. Three years ago, amid The Wife's graduate school days, there was some financial uncertainty. It was decided that we should get a roommate. An ad went up on Craigslist and TW found what she hoped would be her new bestie. Our new roommate was also a graduate student. She had just broken up with her boyfriend and was looking for a fresh start.  She was also pregnant, she found out a couple of weeks later. And that's how we met Nacho Man.  There have been better photos of both of us. He was actually our second roommate. He paid his rent in cash and he worked at the bakery around the corner from our house. It turned out to be my new bestie. And then the landlord's daughter, Sweet Molly Lu, came home from college. You've heard their story before. It's a classic tale of a boy who meets a girl but doesn't want to date the landlord's daughter because it will make things awkward; then they make out one night, fall in laaaaahve and TW and I had a de f