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When my motorcycle-racing boyfriend proposed on my 40th birthday, I couldn't tell if it was a joke or a dare. Then I risked all for a life at the track.
  • Analysis

    Let's analyze a bit: She mentions that she's neither fashionable nor beautiful. She says that she's smart and self sufficient. She talks about him loving her even though she's not like the other halter-topped women at the track. She then goes on to talk about his intelligence, his cooking skills, and his rutting, bearded, grease-stained manliness.

    It almost sounds like she's trying to turn him into what she thinks she herself is (probably wrongfully so): intelligent but sexually unattractive.