A while back, as part of an escalating prank war, there was a guy who rented advertising space on the Jumbotron at a baseball game that his friend and prank opponent was attending with his girlfriend, to make it appear that his friend was proposing. When the victim of the prank - the girlfriend, I suppose, could be thought of as "collateral damage" - confessed that he wasn't behind the proposal and had no intention of marrying her, things didn't go over too well with the girlfriend, which was rather the point of the prank (though I suppose the prankster would have also been amused if the victim of the prank had decided to just suck it up and marry her anyway).
This story isn't at all like that. It's altogether sweeter and more aww-inspiring, and is utterly lacking the cruel disregard for the feelings of innoncent bystanders that was at the heart of the above-mentioned prank. It also shows what a cool guy Neil Gaiman is.
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