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Romance blooms at 30,000 feet when airline passenger pops the question


Welcome to the Humankind newsletter, your weekly look at some of the world’s best good news stories.🗞️ I’m your kindness correspondent, Terry Baddoo. Now, summer is wedding season,👰🏾‍♀️🤵🏾and that brings out the romantic side in many of us. 💕 And that was certainly the case for Darian Brinkley of Atlanta, who was flying to Cancun, Mexico 🛫 🇲🇽 to attend a friend’s wedding with his girlfriend, Minita, 👧🏾 when he was overtaken by a sudden impulse. After he was overheard chatting to a fellow traveler about his plan to propose to Minita after their friends got married💒 passengers and crew encouraged him to seize the day then and there. 🫶🏾 So it was that he popped the question in front of everyone at 30,000 feet! 💍

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