After far too long, Lester Ward has finally come to his senses and asked Eva Swoboda to marry him. (And on a beach at sunset, no less.)
		Even after enduring years of courtship, Eva is still willing to put up with him, so has accepted his proposal.
			The date is not yet set, nor is the place, illustrating the same type of bold decisiveness the couple has shown since meeting in college.
				Jesús, the stuffed platypus who accompanies them all over the world, has made no public comment, but seems enamored of the sparkling hunk of carbon (of questionable utility) now on Eva's finger.