Little boy proposes to his classmate with his mom's diamond ring

Little Tommy is about as smooth as it gets.
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Brian Koerber
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Little Tommy is about as smooth as it gets.

While school crushes typically end in disaster after two days, Millie and Tommy are in it for the long haul. When Millie came home from school recently, she informed her parents that a boy in her class proposed to her, ring and all.

Millie's parents figured that Tommy had popped the big question using a candy ring, but when the girl went to her backpack to retrieve the ring, it came as a bit of a shock to her parents.


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"Tommy has stolen his mother's engagement ring," Millie's dad tells the camera as her mother can barely contain her laughter. "Three enormous diamonds."

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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