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This week, we spoke with Leslie Robinson about how she and her fiancé Jordan met, when they started dating and her reaction when he proposed!
HOW THEY FIRST MET:
Jordan and I met at his friend’s barbecue. I was invited by a friend of mine and when we got there, he was sitting there hanging out. He wasn’t even gonna come that day, but decided that he would. It was fate. I noticed Jordan and everyone at the party was gathered around a table having conversations about TV. Little by little, people kept falling out of the conversation, but Jordan and I continued to talk across the table. I said, “Instead of talking across everyone, I’m gonna sit next to you” and he said, “oh, please do.” We seriously ended up talking, probably for the next 5 hours.
He’s Jewish and white, so we talked about the differences in religion. We talked about what it was like to grow up in California, go to high school in California. By the end of that conversation, we exchanged every contact we had and started G-chatting maybe the next week.
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THEIR FIRST DATE:
Jordan invited me out with a group of some other friends he had. Before going on that group date, I said, “I still don’t know if he likes me, I don’t know what this is.” That was in the summer of 2012. Our first official date wasn’t until October of that year. We kind of just didn’t know where it was going and then, we met for coffee. That’s when I realized, “ok, I think he is interested in me.”
I can’t recall us having a conversation on marriage. But, we did talk about relationships and just our expectations, what we wanted. I think the one thing people ask, “How did you know that person was the one?” and it’s interesting how someone will tell you, “you just know.” It was like that. It was just very easy.
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THE PROPOSAL
I kept telling Jordan, you have to do something cool because it has to be this big story [laughs].
It was one weekend, maybe last month and my mom had wanted us to go to this event they were having at our church. Being me, I was like, “Ma, I don’t want to go that.” I’m trying to find my way to get out of it. So, my mom asks Jordan:
“Jordan, don’t you want to go to this seminar?”
Jordan: “Yeah, when is it?”
Mom: “Saturday.”
Jordan, making a face: “You know I can’t, I have something to do. I have to pick something up.”
At this point, I’m like, “What do you have to do?” We live together and we schedule everything. When he said he had to pick up something, I had this inclination that he was going to get my ring.
Saturday comes and I’m lying in bed and he’s like, “are you gonna get up?.” I’m like, “To do what?” He was like, “You’re gonna go with me, aren’t you?” We get dressed and go to the ring store. I sat in the car because I didn’t want to be there. That takes the romance out of it [laughs]. About 20 minutes later, he came out the ring store and he had this look on his face that he was extremely happy. He got in the car and said, “I’m so happy, we went over a couple hurdles to get where we are, but I really can’t imagine not spending my life with you and I’m just happy to be in this moment.” Then, he just got quiet. Then, he jumps out and goes to my side of the car, he opens the door, goes down on his knee and asks me if I would marry him and I just sat there with my mouth hanging open. I just sat there for a second because I was in shock and then I just started cracking up laughing.
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