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Couple engaged where they met -- on train

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CHICAGO, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A Chicago man rented a city train to propose to his girlfriend at the stop where the couple met four years ago.

Ashley Henderson agreed to marry Corey Bell at a Chicago Transit Authority train station at the corner of Clark and Lake, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday.

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Bell won $2,500 store credit from Robbins Bros., World's Biggest Engagement Ring Store, by taking the top spot in an essay contest geared toward couples who met on the city's transit system.

Robbins Bros. spokesman John Cordova said the store helped Bell arrange his "fantasy engagement," which included featured the rented train filled with family, friends, heart-shaped balloons and a large banner reading: "ASHLEY, WILL YOU MARRY ME? LOVE COREY."

"I never thought it would happen like this," Henderson said after the proposal. "I didn't know he had it in him. He's always been nice and a gentleman, but this ... I don't know what to say."

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