The 500th Journey
My boyfriend proposed to me when we graduated from high school, but I made a deal with him instead of giving him an immediate answer.
"We'll get married when we've collected 500 train tickets."
In the first year, Marcus could hardly wait to come see me every day. Before long, our collection had grown to 280 tickets.
He even laughed and said that he'd be able to take me home as his wife before graduation at the rate he was going.
In the second year, we met each other halfway. Soon, the number of tickets climbed to 400.
But in our third year, Marcus told me that his advisor had taken on a new project and that a junior who had just joined the research team needed him to show her the rope