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        <title>The Celebrity Couple Otherwise Known As McFreed</title>
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            <title>We&#39;re Engaged... whatever that means!!!</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Sean &amp; Stefan)</author>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sean &amp;amp; Stefan announce...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well it finally happened. After a year and half and two&amp;#160;&lt;strong&gt;Christmases&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160;together, &lt;strong&gt;Sean&lt;/strong&gt; up and proposed to &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Christmas Eve&lt;/strong&gt;!&amp;#160; In the middle of watching the &lt;strong&gt;Judy Garland&lt;/strong&gt; sing to &lt;strong&gt;Margaret O&amp;#39;Brien&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; in &lt;strong&gt;Meet Me In Saint Louis&lt;/strong&gt; (the designated &lt;strong&gt;Xmas Eve&lt;/strong&gt; film), &lt;strong&gt;Sean&lt;/strong&gt; handed &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; the gift below.&amp;#160; &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; sleepy-eyed from the1AM hour slowly opened the blue wrapping paper with snow flakes on it, unwrapped the protective bubble wrap and uncovered the proposal &lt;strong&gt;Sean&lt;/strong&gt; created with his own two hands... &lt;/p&gt;

    
    
    
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; looked at &lt;strong&gt;Sean&lt;/strong&gt; stunned and blinked with a smile. Given the $150.00 &lt;strong&gt;Xmas&lt;/strong&gt; budget we had this year (a house and adopted children just don&amp;#39;t grow on trees anymore after all), &lt;strong&gt;Sean&lt;/strong&gt; decided to give &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; his heart forever instead of a shiny new trinket. &amp;quot;The answer is &amp;#39;Yes&amp;#39;,&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; said &amp;quot;but are you sure you mean &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot; We both laughed and then kissed. &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; found out his own brother &lt;strong&gt;Andy&lt;/strong&gt; was in on the &amp;quot;deception&amp;quot; the whole time!&amp;#160; &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; went on to be speechless for 45 minutes and then told &lt;strong&gt;Sean&lt;/strong&gt; not to expect a ring in these red circular boxes under the tree. &lt;strong&gt;Sean&lt;/strong&gt; went on to bed and crashed, his &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; accomplished... &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; stayed up another hour still stunned trying to figure out if it was a dream... it wasn&amp;#39;t! &lt;/p&gt;

    
    
    
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&lt;p&gt;We started to spread the word to family and friends the next couple of days and the phrase that kept coming up was &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does that mean? Engaged?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;#160; We both laughed and found it extremely humorous and then looked at each other and said &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;What does that mean???&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#160; What DO two gay men do after they get engaged? So watch this blog for how we solve &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mystery of The Engaged McFreeds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;

    
    
    
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&lt;p&gt;Many have asked why are we are doing this even though we live in a state without legal gay marriage or civil unions.&amp;#160; All we know at this time (a favorite &lt;strong&gt;Stefan&lt;/strong&gt; phrase) is that we are in love and can&amp;#39;t see any better person to spend the rest of our lives with but each other. Sappy but true. &amp;#160;The law can catch up to us, this is our story after all right? (wink)&lt;/p&gt;
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