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‘He Said Yes!’

Despite changing norms, it’s still exceedingly rare for women to propose in heterosexual couples.
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As public figures have often been known to do in the age , Elizabeth Warren commemorated her wedding anniversary this past weekend by expressing her appreciation for her partner . Warren shared a story that also appears in her 2014 memoir , about the day she realized she’d be with Bruce Mann, now her husband of 39 years, for the rest of their lives. “One day at the grocery store soon after we first met, I saw Bruce gazing at the strawberry display. I said, ‘We can get some if you want!’ He smiled, picked up a carton, and told me he was thinking about his family. ‘We didn’t eat things like fresh strawberries,’ he explained,” Warren’s tweet read. “It made me think about my family, too, how my mother would work her grocery list to squeeze out every last nickel. In that moment, I knew Bruce and I would be bound to each other forever.”

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