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Zackery pursued me passionately during college. It became a widely discussed story. Eight years later, I woke up one morning and found an engagement ring in his suit pocket. I remembered that when we first got together, he had said, "I want to get married by the age of twenty-six." Today happened to be his twenty-sixth birthday. I was overjoyed and dressed up meticulously. I left work early, carrying a birthday cake to his birthday party. But just outside the private room, I overheard Zackery scoff, "Yvonne? Please, I'm just having some fun with her. She's past her prime. No way she can compete with the young girls." I threw the birthday cake away and turned to leave. After disappearing from Shanieville for a month, I showed up all dressed up with another man. Zackery went mad.