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Ok, so I really thought being engaged was going to be like being visibly pregnant. Like maybe there would be a particular kind of glow and people would just know I’d been changed in some big, perceptible way, and maybe strangers wouldn’t be able to keep themselves from stopping me in the street to say, “There’s something different about you! Are you recently engaged?” but that hasn’t happened. At all. Even when I find opportunities to slip, “I just got engaged,” into conversation, people seem not to notice. Like it’s not a big deal. And, honestly, fuck them.