It happens on the sixth
⟨How the two of us met, and the years that led here, is the chapter we’ll fill in soon.⟩
It was a Wednesday evening at home, August 6, 2025. Mason and Raelynn were at the table, a board game going, and Sheldon had been holding back tiles all night. Then he laid them down.
She said yes.

We got engaged on the sixth of August. We’re marrying on the sixth of February, eighteen months to the day.
Chapter three begins on the sixth of February.