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A Case of the Human Condition: The Day She Popped the Question

May 15, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Things were getting serious. My boyfriend had moved his goldfish into my apartment. I had returned from a long weekend to find that Jon had moved his dimestore pets from his place to mine. He was sheepish about this.

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