Would You Marry Someone Who Didn’t Buy You a Diamond?

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This summer I proposed to my girlfriend in a beautiful, secluded spot in the Ronda, Spain, a place where “The entire town and as far as you can see in any direction is romantic background…”, according to Earnest Hemmingway. We went on a daytime hike around the base of the town’s famous massive stone bridge. Despite me briefly becoming an awkward, nervous mess in the minutes leading to me dropping…