Proposal
Proposal by Vickie Tern At first I didn't think Tiff had even heard me -- she just looked at me, her face registering nothing. So I proposed it again, a lot more earnestly, this time as if I were on one knee and proposing marriage. Which I was, in my own mind, and she knew it too. She knew that was my eventual intention, though I knew her answer now would be 'Sorry, no!' or at best 'Larry, you're wonderful and all, but I'm not ready ....' She simply...