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A promise to keep promising, ratified by a circle of compressed carbon you can't afford.
diamond mythDe Beers invented the two-month salary rule in 1947 ads
ring fingerRomans believed it held a vein straight to the heart
military originThe word once meant a battle, not a betrothal
average lengthEngagements now stretch past 18 months before vows
break rateRoughly 1 in 5 engagements never reach the altar