Meet the Mar Riage Magnet ; Author Adele Parks has Been Proposed to by Nine Men. The Secret, She Says, Is Simple - Just Become Whatever He Wants You to Be. So What Happened When She Finally Did Say 'Yes'? [Scot Region]

Daily Mail › March 03, 2009

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IT'S the question every woman longs to be asked, so after nine marriage proposals, author Adele Parks, 40, must be the smuggest woman in Britain.

Apparently not. She says being a marriage magnet is not always a good thing. False modesty or does she have a point?

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Meet the Mar Riage Magnet ; Author Adele Parks has Been Proposed to by Nine Men. The Secret, She Says, Is Simple - Just Become Whatever He Wants You to Be. So What Happened When She Finally Did Say 'Yes'? [Scot Region]

AGED just 21 and living in Italy, I was looking for a bit of hedonistic fun. So, I was shocked when my new friend Cosimo ruined a trip to Pompeii by going down on one knee and pulling a ring out of his pocket.

He said I was perfect and sweet (I'm certainly not!) and he'd loved me from the moment he set eyes on me. We weren't dating -- we hadn't as much as held hands.

Filled with horror, I gazed around the ancient site, concerned that anyone had overheard him. The moment a girl is proposed...

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