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for Rod and Bob Jackson-Paris proposing to each other in Straight from
the Heart. After Bob served Rod a romantic candlelit dinner (which
neither could eat, since both were on starvation diets to preserve their
hourglass figures), they managed to get all the way to first base when
Bob suddenly leapt to his feet, snatched up the photograph of his mother
and father, and turned it toward Rod, solemnly proclaiming, "I want
my family to witness this." With the Paris forbears looming
sternly over his shoulder, lending their moral authority to this momentous
occasion, he then sank down on one knee and, seizing Rod's hand in his,
asked "will you marry me?" One can only imagine the thoughts
that raced through Rod's head as he told Bob "he was crazy, that this
was ridiculous, that this was just . . . too soon." "We
didn't have sex that night," Rod explained after he agreed to become
Bob's fiance, for although "we wanted each other badly . . . it went
unspoken that we would" -- one utters a silent prayer for the values
of Western civilization -- "wait a while."
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