Valentine Angels

With This Ring

Roland and I had known each other since preschool. Back then all the girls liked him because of his sweet personality, blue eyes and light blond hair. Apparently I agreed with them, because by February of our fourth-grade year he was my boyfriend.

Roland asked his mom for permission to buy me a Valentine’s Day present with the money he’d saved. She took him to the mall, where he picked out a ring with a tiny red stone. All my friends oohed and aahed about how romantic it was. I don’t even remember how our childhood crush came to an end or what I did with the ring, but over the years our families remained close. Our moms had been high school friends, so all their kids