The Glass Castle - Pg 27

   Dad swam after Mom, and right there in the water, he told her he was going to marry her. Twenty-three men had already proposed to her, Mom told Dad, and she had turned them all down. "What makes you think I'd accept your proposal?" she asked.
   "I didn't propose to you," Dad said. "I told you I was going to marry you."
   Six months later, they got married.