Lace'em Up

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With a last name like Bang the jokes were endless.</strong></h4><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'd decided long ago it was easier to pretend to embrace my namesake than try to prove myself to the world.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No one had ever seen through that...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until I rescued a runaway bride from the side of the road.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then my mom-my interfering </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>matchmaking</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> mom-saw the diamond ring made assumptions I didn't have the heart to dispel and suddenly Rory and I were pretending to be engaged.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only...somewhere along the way it became real.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Somewhere along the way I realized I could never let her go.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>