Chapter 10

Kids and Families and Friends

Occasionally a child or two or an entire family is so lovable and specific, that rather than a deterrent to love, they are actually an opening to it.

In The Proposal, the most impactful crack in Margaret’s view of Peter is his world. The beauty (and wealth and power) of his background. His family are like Alaskan Kennedys. And his adorable quirky family themselves. Mary Steenburgen, Betty White, Craig T. Nelson. Margaret finds herself falling for them as well and it changes him in her eyes. She begins to see who he really is and to fall in love him. In the middle of the wedding ceremony, Margaret has to call it off in tears because she can’t bear to disappoint his family by lying to them. Of course with ...

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