Despite constant Wall Street speculation, Lehman has yet to receive a marriage proposal worth considering from any other bank.

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He's just released arguably his most commercially accessible disc, The Believer, and "Question" closes the album with a sweet slice-of-life sketch detailing a marriage proposal.

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Most recently, a 14-year-old was killed by a gunman as she opened her door, allegedly in connection to a failed marriage proposal.

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Hoping to do something "grand, " she consults with a traveling holy man (Jamie Jackson) while considering either joining a convent, accepting an unexpected marriage proposal from a much older man, or continuing to walk out with Michael Maguire, a boy her own age.

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Fitzgerald initially projects a pleasant, if repressed and awkward air as Stan, particularly when he bumbles through his implausible marriage proposal to Katie.

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