I recently proposed to Manu, whom I have been dating since I returned to the US. We were on a Jamaican vacation, sitting on the westernmost point on the island, watching the sun set into the Caribbean, and I asked her to be my wife. Dolphins frolicked, wizened poets brought us coconuts, and sexagenarian middle American couples blazed their spliffs. In other words, it was magical.
Manu makes me happier than anyone I've ever been with before in my life, and I'm pleased to report that she didn't turn me down.
We are going to get legally married on May 24th, 2009 at 1:00pm at my mother's house in Norwich, Vermont. We will have a second and more formal ceremony on May 22nd, 2010 in Fortaleza, Brazil with Manu's family and friends.
