In the spring of 1995, my sister and her boyfriend were engaged, set to be married on August 19th of that same year. Their wedding plans fell through, but Susan and I had been living together for a couple of years by then and since all of our family in Chicago had already made plans to come to Oklahoma on August 19th we decided to get married on that same date. All of this happened before I officially proposed. When I was a kid, my parents would hide our Easter eggs the night before Easter after my sister and I… (read more)