Artifact-Based Interview

1.) During quiet time I observed that Megan's diamond ring was worn on her left ring finger; symbolizing engagement to marriage. She wears it everyday and once toward the beginning of the semester I asked if she was engaged and she said no. It is made of either silver, white gold, or perhaps even platinum, it has a center large brilliant shaped and radiant cut diamond with a medium on either side, and next to the meduim are three small diamonds on either side. These could be cubic zarconia but they look like real diamonds; I am no professional though. Maybe she wears it as a joke and never plans to marry but sports the ring as if she were. I wonder where she got it- a loved one? Maybe she enjoys its beauty and or likes the idea it gives people that she has intentions to marry. Megan wears a couple of other pieces of jewelry, none of which stand out like the ring on her left hand does. The ring connects me to marriage and happiness, romance and love. My sister has a marquise shaped brilliant cut engagement ring with three diamonds on it. I assume because I asked her if she were engaged at the beginning of the semester that it isn't an engagement ring and therefore more likely to be fake.
Megan's ring is from Kay's Jeweler; when I previously asked if she were engaged she'd been wearing a different, smaller diamond ring on her left hand that stood as a promise of engagment. I didn't notice the new ring symbolizing the change! She and her boyfriend became engaged Jan 30th so she has had the ring a month now. He asked her in their apartment one evening after work while she was wearing pajamas and had just washed dishes; he told her they didn't need a new couch and that something else was more important. As he reached in his pocket he got down on one knee, brought the box out, and asked her to marry him. He picked the ring out himself, and everytime she looks at it Megan is still startled by its beauty and reminded she has wedding plans to make. She wants the wedding in 2010 during Fall in Morgantown. She tells me if it were ever lost she would be devastated first and then scared to tell her fiancee, although its under a lifetime guranteed warranty. It was an unexpected gift, he was late coming home from work because he had been at her parents house getting approval and showing off the ring. Her family is excited; loves her new fiancee and already consider him a son. She thought it wouldn't happen until next Decemeber when she would graduate.She did not cry after she said yes but was tremendously happy and surprised, he was nervous because she unintentionally hesitated before saying yes due to her extreme shock, afterward he was very happy. The ring I first noticed was a gift from her fiancee before the engagment that symbolized his commitment to Megan because when they first started out it was rocky, he still lived with his ex girlfriend who hadn't moved out yet. After the ring fortunately the ex left, and then he moved in with Megan.