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my interest in sports medicine and arthroscopy, we decide that as a fourth year I should do another rotation in Jacksonville. Of course this choice causes lots of issues with Mariana. Biting the bullet, I ask my dad for money so I can buy an engagement ring. It’s a year earlier then what I was planning, but I’m all in if it will make Mariana happy. Not wanting to be leaning on my parents anymore, I don’t have any cash and I don’t want to put a ring on my credit card. My parents are really supportive. My mom actually comes through, sending me my grandmother’s diamond engagement ring. A couple of days after talking to my parents, I get a call.
    “What absolutely shockingly stupid thing are you about to do now?” my sister’s voice booms at me.
    “What?” is all I manage to say in response.
    “Mom just called me and said you’re asking that insane women you live with to marry you. Please, tell me this isn’t so.”
    “Call me when you’re rational,” I respond back to Jamie.
    “You don’t get to hang up on me, Nate. This is my future sister-in-law you’re talking about, my future nieces and nephews. Why would you want to marry that insane women?”
    “Frankly, you’re the one that sounds insane. Anyway, I love her, she makes me happy.”
    “Nate, she’s difficult, always playing control games, and not much of a partner, besides you have nothing in common. Name one thing you do together?”
    “We enjoy each other’s company.”
    “Please don’t tell me you’re asking her to marry you just so she stops throwing tantrums.”
    “Jamie, she’s my future. Get used to it if you want to stay in my life.”
    We end the call on a difficult note. Why is Jamie being such a jerk? After that bazaar conversation, I lie in bed awake. It finally hit’s me that Jamie just doesn’t understand. I love Mariana, I want her to be happy, and I want to be with her.
    Before I head off to Jacksonville again, Mariana and I take a one-week vacation to the Virgin Islands. I get to run and swim on the beach every day. Mariana joins me on a boat as I scuba dive. For dinner, we go to a romantic restaurant, between courses I take her for a walk on the beach at sunset where I propose, even going down on one knee. Lucky for me, she accepts. Giving her my grandmother’s two-carat diamond ring, I tell her she can choose any setting she wants. On our second to last day, I make a point of doing what she likes. Ordering a half-day spa session for her in the morning, then I take her shopping in the afternoon where we visit jewelry stores, eventually finding a setting Mariana likes.
     

Chapter 12 – Dear John
     
    The rotation in Jacksonville is much easier this time since I already know the drill. After I get back Mariana and I enjoy a fun summer hanging with friends. All seems to be well until I come home from work late one night and see a sheet from a prescription pad on the kitchen counter with Mariana’s engagement ring on top. The note says:
     
    Dear Nate,
    I love you, but love isn’t enough. I thought it would be easiest if I left quietly. I’ve taken a job in Atlanta. Good luck with your life.
    Mariana
     
    Standing in my kitchen, I think I’m in shock. We’ve been together almost three years. No conversation; all I get is a Dear John letter. Why? What went wrong? What didn’t I do?
    Walking around our apartment like a zombie, she’s taken what she wanted and left what she didn’t want, which includes me. Some of her toiletries and clothes are still in the closet and in the bathroom. Our bed, the bed I bought is gone. While her old crappy bed remains in the guest room. The couch I paid for --that she chose-- is gone, while the chair she bought --that I’ve always hated-- remains. Most of the stuff in the kitchen is gone, though she left me the fancy coffee maker she had to have. Then again, she never could figure out how to use it. Wandering from room to room, I open up closets and drawers cataloging what’s left