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What's that, you ask? Why, it's the sound of mall-haired hearts breaking all over the world continental United States! After 16 (16!!) years of an on-again/off-again relationship with girlfriend Kristi Gibson, Bret Michaels finally asked for her hand in marriage.
"If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it...16 years later after two children," doesn't really have quite the same ring to it. (Get it? Ring!) But regardless, congratulations to Bret and Kristi! Bret proposed to Kristi on the Monday night finale of his VH1 reality show "Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It." Bret followed tradition and got down on one knee, but after he ended his speech he added, "Please say yes, or the rejection will kill me right now." No pressure, Kristi. (Spoiler alert: She said yes.)
You know what they say--sometimes you just need to front the rock band Poison, travel around the world, have two children, become the subject of a three-part reality television series profiling your quest for love on a tour bus and survive a life-threatening brain hemorrhage before you realize the one has been right there all along. We just love a good, old-fashioned love story.