The Item
"I'd like to tell you about someone very close to my heart," writes reporter Nick McCormac at the beginning of a column published Tuesday. "I promise you, it's worth your time to read through to the end." After describing how he and his girlfriend met and became inseparable, he writes, "Words are my profession. They're my living. My job is to take the most complex, complicated and confusing situations and describe them in a concise and simplistic manner. ... No matter what I do or what I say, no words could ever justifiably describe how I feel about you. But there are six words that come awfully close. Whitney Bragg, will you marry me?" She said yes. (Alternate universe: McCormac calls his girlfriend later in the day, asks if she read his column, and she says, "No, why?")