is for Rod and Bob Jackson-Paris proposing to each other in Straight from the Heart. After Bob served Rod a romantic candlelit dinner (which neither could eat, since both were on starvation diets to preserve their hourglass figures), they managed to get all the way to first base when Bob suddenly leapt to his feet, snatched up the photograph of his mother and father, and turned it toward Rod, solemnly proclaiming, "I want my family to witness this." With the Paris forbears looming sternly over his shoulder, lending their moral authority to this momentous occasion, he then sank down on one knee and, seizing Rod's hand in his, asked "will you marry me?" One can only imagine the thoughts that raced through Rod's head as he told Bob "he was crazy, that this was ridiculous, that this was just . . . too soon." "We didn't have sex that night," Rod explained after he agreed to become Bob's fiance, for although "we wanted each other badly . . . it went unspoken that we would" -- one utters a silent prayer for the values of Western civilization -- "wait a while."
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