Anna knew that the handmade necklace her boyfriend had given her on the one-year anniversary of their relationship came from his heart, and to show her that she appreciated his love and devotion, Anna wore it every day for a year, she took it even on vacation wherever they went.
The photos they took the next year and a half show in detail this special necklace, even when she is at home and working on a painting, or petting the cat, or when she is playing in the snow with the dogs.
But what Anna didn’t know was that the handmade necklace hid a secret that Terry, her boyfriend, could not wait for the right time to come to reveal.
The two always wanted to go to Smoo Cave on the north coast of Scotland, and that was where Terry showed her what she had actually been wearing around her neck all this time. After taking a few pictures, he took a knife and slowly cut the seal that held the two halves of the chain together. Then she set the camera and he also entered the frame next to her, at the entrance to the cave.
“Oh, I’d better give you the chain back,” he told her, and opened it, showing her what had been in it all this time: an engagement ring. “Smoo” means “hiding” in the Old Norse, so he couldn’t choose a better place to ask for it.
Anna was moved to tears by the fact that her boyfriend knew after a year of relationship that she was the chosen one. Watch this video about the places this symbol of the love of these two young people traveled: