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Contributed by: Anthonette Klinkerman on 2/14/2007

I was substitute teaching in a district outside of San Diego when I kept noticing a young teacher at one of the schools. Dark hair, glasses, very cute in a Chandler Bing kind of way.

Our paths kept crossing, and exes kept coming back into the picture for both of us, but I eventually ended up on a long-term assignment at his school. He found excuse after excuse to come to my classroom, though I told him I would never date someone I was working with. The last day of my assignment happened to be Valentine's Day and he very sweetly asked me the day before to be his Valentine.

Was I ever in for a surprise. That night, he made me dinner - halibut with pan-fried leeks - and then we went to the Olde Globe Theater in Balboa Park to see a play. It was raining outside at intermission, and as he held me in his arms under a shelter he said, "I hope we can do this again next year."

Well, he did one better by "kidnapping" me from my school to go skiing, where he proposed on a mountainside on the thirteenth of February, 1999. (It's hard to kneel in skiis, by the way.)

We had been looking at rings, but I was completely caught by surprise when that ring came out into the sunlight. What I also didn't know was that he went to my father to ask for my hand. My father, beng the traditional Greek he is, was so thrilled that he passed down an heirloom diamond for my engagement ring with his blessings.

For the record, my wonderful husband of nearly eight years made me that same dinner last night - Feb. 13.

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