Oranges and Lemons

Benny Allen
3 min readAug 24, 2021

My friends have been tried to get married for a while. One night he went down on one knee, she said yes. They kissed. Everyone around clapping and hugging and howling. Someone cried. It was as romantic as a proposal can get. And then nothing happened.

The day the restaurant manager told them they had to cancel everything because of the new restrictions, they cried. But they didn’t tell anyone. They just shut the front door…

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