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"Bride-to-be Amanda wanted a dollhouse for as long as she could remember, so her boyfriend of seven years decided to get her one. But that&amp;amp;#8217;s not all he got her&amp;amp;#133; &amp;amp;#8220;Before my boyfriend, Michael, and I left for a vacation to Virginia Beach, he told me he had a present for me. He led me, with closed eyes, down to the basement of his house. When I opened them, there was a beautiful blue dollhouse in front of me. I had wanted a dollhouse my entire 24 years of life, but the closest I had ever gotten to receiving one was a kit to make one. Turning it into an actual house would have required lots of hard work and many man-hours, which neither my busy parents nor I had, so I still had no dollhouse&amp;amp;#133;until now. I was naturally excited (and a bit confused!) to have this childhood wish fulfilled, but Michael explained that the gift was for doing so well my first year of law school, so I just thought it was a sweet gesture. We headed down to VA Beach after that. Despite having gone to various beaches together in the past, we had yet to experience a sunrise on the beach, even though we both agreed it was something we wanted to see. Luckily for Michael&amp;amp;#8217;s proposal planning purposes, I insisted that this trip would be the time we dragged ourselves out of bed before dawn. On our second morning of vacation, Michael urgently woke me saying, &amp;amp;#8220;Come on, we have to get down to the beach! We don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to miss it!&amp;amp;#8221; I quickly threw on some clothes, and we went down to the sand. We ended up sitting on the beach for a good 45 minutes waiting, almost getting run over by the beach rake tractor in the process. Eventually, Michael stood up, so I did the same. Then, on a cloudless horizon, the huge pink ball of a sun peeked out above the top of the water. It was beautiful, but what came next was even better. Michael told me the dollhouse was a symbol of the foundation we&amp;amp;#8217;ve built together over the past seven years and that we would continue to build on together. Then he presented me with the first piece to fill the house: a nightstand. I&amp;amp;#8217;m not sure why I did it, but I decided to pull open the bottom drawer. Inside was a fabulous diamond ring! At that moment, Michael got down on his knee and asked me to marry him. I cried yes before he even finished his question. He put the ring on me, and then I had to sit down because I was so in shock, my legs were shaking! (Also, I should add that I made Engagement Chicken for my now-fiance one week prior to him popping the question. He says it doesn&amp;#x27;t count because he had already planned to propose, but we all know it was really the chicken!)&amp;amp;#8221; A sunset and a dollhouse--have you ever heard anything more romantic? Is there something from your childhood that you&amp;amp;#8217;d want your boyfriend to use in a proposal? What should the couple do with the dollhouse at their wedding? More Perfect Proposal Stories He Surprised Me With a Video&amp;amp;#133;on the Giant Screen at a Movie Theater! An In-Flight Engagement He Popped the Question During an Old-Time Portrait Session More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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