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"We were leaving for Cabo the
next morning, and a couple hours before we were supposed to leave for dinner, we realized that Colin's passport had expired," Hyde remembers.
RIGHT: Hyde and Ricks, both Charlotte natives, have lived in Ballantyne for years.
on the night Ricks proposed, Hyde's mind was a million miles away — in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
"We were leaving for Cabo the next morning, and a couple hours before we were supposed
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to leave for dinner, we realized that Colin's passport had expired," Hyde remembers. "So that's what I was focused on. I was freaking out about it because we weren't going to get to fly to Mexico."
Ricks hoped to use the passport distraction to his advantage, knowing that Hyde would be so preoccupied with replacing the official document that she wouldn't be expecting a marriage proposal. First,
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however, he had a serious obstacle to overcome. "In the back of my mind, I was thinking, 'How in the world am I going to convince her to still go to the restaurant?'" Ricks recalls. "She was upset.
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