great,” he said, his hands fiddling behind his back. “but it has occurred to me that I would love to spend the rest
of my life together with you. Would you marry me?” He held out a beautiful ring he made himself with little
pieces of blue shells. Her favorite color. When Susan didn’t make a sound, he looked up and saw her smiling
and crying at the same time. “Yes,” she whispered. “Yes.”
A month after the proposal, Peter and Susan had a small wedding. Peter took his wife back to Sweden
to visit his parents, who both loved their daughter-in-law. They then moved to Hong Kong with Susan’s parents
and found an apartment with a good living condition. Not long after, they had their first kid, a girl who is now
14
years old with a little sister.
That’s me.
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