WE'RE ENGAGED

Engagement

So we have decided to tie the knot! Yep it’s true. (I’m writing this after the fact, but will write it as though my name is still Anna Puzey.) I am really really bad at this but I will attempt to tell you about how Chad proposed, which time you may ask. Probably the 765^th, if you would like to know how he asked other times, I will let you know, but we consider this the “real” one…whatever that means. When I first met Chad I did something for him that actually as unselfish as it seems was also a huge thing for me as well. I have a bucket list, well actually more than one, but one of things that is listed on it is to fold a thousand paper cranes. I had waited and waited and multiple times attempted to accomplish this and well, it never worked. I met Chad the beginning of October 2007 and a few weeks later he got diagnosed. As soon as I found out I made the decision that this was the time that I would do that and so I started to fold. And fold and fold. I sat in class and in church and pretty much everywhere and folded. And about 2 and a half months later I finally finished. I sent them to Chad for Christmas with if you know the story of Sadako , along with the attached wish.

Time passed and I never knew what he wished for. But I found out this week. I found out that during all of this fight against cancer, Chad never wished that it would go away…at least not with this wish. But that instead he had help onto it. Chad gave me a box which inside had a silver folded paper crane. One that he had apparently been holding onto for a long time. It was the one that held the wish. He gave it to me and told me that his wish was to be with me forever, that it didn’t matter how hard we had to fight, it didn’t matter what life brought us or how hard it was that his wish was and always had been to be with me. To his I am sure disappointment I didn’t cry but my heart burned and leaped as I knew that that had been my wish from the beginning as well and it didn’t matter how un ideal the situation was we both got what we wanted and both of our wishes had come true.