Terry proposed four weeks ago on Friday, January 25. We had been dating for over three years.
As background, we had known each other briefly in 2002, when I interned for John Kerry’s campaign the summer after my sophomore year at BC. Terry was on the Senator’s campaign staff then. When we said goodbye at the end of that summer, he never knew I had a huge crush on him, and I certainly had no idea he felt the same way. We lost touch, until we bumped into each other in Faneuil Hall in October 2004. We had both stepped out of the office to buy lunch at Quincy Market and ran into each other. We have been together ever since that day.
Terry told me early in the morning of January 25th that he wanted to go to dinner at a steakhouse called Plaza III in Faneuil Hall. I had been very sick with a horrible cold, and did not want to go out at all. He insisted, which was very strange. We didn’t talk much during the day and when we met at the restaurant later that night Terry was acting very anxious. We had a nice dinner, but Terry sort of rushed me through it, and it was awkward. How can two people who have eaten so many meals together be awkward?
After dinner, as we went outside he took me to the spot where we reunited in 2004, and he proposed. He said he knew from the day he saw me in this spot that he wanted to be with me forever. I was shaking so hard and had my hands covering my face as he asked me to marry him. When I heard passersby screaming “congratulations” and “say yes”, I took my hands down and saw he had been on one knee the whole time, holding up a beautiful diamond ring.
The reason Terry has rushed me through dinner was because he had a limousine waiting on busy State Street, just next to Faneuil Hall, to whisk us away to meet our parents. Terry had arranged the whole night perfectly. We drank champagne all night and have been celebrating ever since.
These are photos from that night (my ring was too big so I wore it on the middle finger for safety).
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