--- On Sat, 12/20/08, Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Bob! This could work both ways. ;)
>
> My husband had my engagement ring fixed for my birthday
> last August. I have
> an oval cornflower blue sapphire with a small trillium
> diamond on either
> side. Several years ago one of the diamonds fell out. Out
> of the blue, he
> asked one night if I'd mind letting him borrow my ring
> for a week or two.
> Well, that only meant one thing. He took the ring to a
> local jeweler he'd
> met because he had started giving guitar lessons to her
> son.
>
> Two weeks later, on a Thursday afternoon when I work at my
> husband's store,
> he was locking up and pulled an envelope out of his pocket.
> He got down on
> his knees and proposed to me all over again, putting the
> repaired ring back
> on my finger. In spite knowing what my mother-in-law is
> like, I said "Yes."
>
> lkvp