“I’m not asking because of that night.”

“Then why?”

“I’m asking because you sing badly while washing dishes. Because you carry Band-Aids in three different sizes. Because you pretend you don’t like baseball and then yell at the umpire louder than I do.”

Maddie’s eyes filled. “I’m asking because you make my mother laugh. Because you never let your father call himself old. Because you remind me to stop serving long enough to sit down.”

He took her hands. “I’m asking because the hardest night of your life introduced us, but the ordinary days made me love you.”

Then he knelt. “Madison Price, will you marry me?”