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  • Nataliyia Lavryshyn was enjoying a typical date night with her boyfriend, Josh Ogle, when the music started to play.

    Ogle was proposing.

    "I didn't realize what was happening until I finally grabbed the ring and put it on my finger," Lavryshyn recalled.

    But the ring was just the beginning. After the proposal, Ogle swept off his bride-to-be in a vintage car, and the pair went to a high-end restaurant where they were feted by a celebrity chef. They finished by jetting off to Europe for a post-proposal celebration.

    "It's very much in my character and, I think, in our relationship, for me to try to do things that are goofy and clever and catch her by surprise," Ogle said.

    Proposals are getting bigger and better; simply getting down on bended knee to pop the question now seems to be a thing of the past.

    "With the advent of social media, things like Facebook and YouTube, guys are thinking outside the box," said Sarah Pease, a New York City-based marriage proposal and engagement

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  • A Pennsylvania high school is asking students to lay off the body spray after one of them suffered a life-threatening allergic reaction.

    The student, whose name and gender have not been made public, was rushed to a nearby hospital by ambulance after being exposed to Axe Body Spray, according to a statement by Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pa.

    "My request to all Freedom Family members is that we take into consideration this student's allergy to Axe Body Spray and refrain from using it as your cologne or fragrance of choice while attending Freedom High School," the statement read.

    RELATED: 17 Scary Allergy Triggers

    Axe, owned by Unilever, makes deodorant and body sprays as well as hair, face and body cleansers. The company insists that customer safety and well-being are its "first priority."

    "We were made aware of a report about an allergic reaction, and we are looking into the matter," a spokesman said in an email to ABCNews.com. "If there are any

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  • Santa Fe Goes Rogue on Gay Marriage

    Same-sex marriage is already legal in New Mexico, if Santa Fe city officials are to be believed.

    Citing an ABC News-Washington Post poll this week that showed growing support for gay marriage nationally, Santa Fe Mayor David Coss, City Attorney Geno Zamora and Councilor Patti Bushee announced their support for gay marriage Tuesday and recommended that city clerks begin doling out marriage licenses to couples, regardless of gender.

    "Marriage law in New Mexico is gender-neutral and does not define marriage as between a man and a woman," Zamora said in a statement from Santa Fe city government. "New Mexico already recognizes valid marriages performed in other states between same-sex couples; it would violate our state's constitution to deny equal rights in our own families."

    Coss is a Democrat, but his coming out in favor of gay marriage echoes the sentiments of Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, because he, too, has a gay child. Portman announced his support for marriage

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  • Jake Davidson is one brave 17-year-old.

    The high school senior from Los Angeles asked Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton to be his prom date via a YouTube video. In the clip, titled "Kate Upton, Will You Go to Prom With Me?," Jake explains why Upton should be his date.

    "Kate, can I call you Katie? OK, Kate works," Jake says in the video, while taking a shower.

    "Kate, great moments are born from great opportunity and that is what you have here today, a chance to make a nice guy's senior year the best ever," he continues, while tying his tie.

    He goes on to explain that he can't dance and he's shorter than her, but they do have commonalities, including Sports Illustrated. Upton poses in it, wearing swimsuits, and Jake reads it.

    And Jake might just get his perfect prom. The model tweeted back to him Tuesday, saying, "you can call me Katie if you want! How could I turn down that video! I'll check my schedule ;)"

    Jake was then surprised on NBC's "Today" show this morning by

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  • Green Light for Santa Fe Gay Marriages Signals Caution

    Same-sex marriage is already legal in New Mexico, if Santa Fe city officials are to be believed.

    Citing an ABC News-Washington Post poll this week that showed growing support for gay marriage nationally, Santa Fe Mayor David Coss, City Attorney Geno Zamora and Councilor Patti Bushee announced their support for gay marriage Tuesday and recommended that city clerks begin doling out marriage licenses to couples, regardless of gender.

    "Marriage law in New Mexico is gender-neutral and does not define marriage as between a man and a woman," Zamora said in a statement from Santa Fe city government. "New Mexico already recognizes valid marriages performed in other states between same-sex couples; it would violate our state's constitution to deny equal rights in our own families."

    Coss is a Democrat, but his coming out in favor of gay marriage echoes the sentiments of Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, because he, too, has a gay child. Portman announced his support for marriage

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  • A new policy by CVS Pharmacy requires every one of its nearly 200,000 employees who use its health plan to submit their weight, body fat, glucose levels and other vitals or pay a monthly fine.

    Employees who agree to this testing will see no change in their health insurance rates, but those who refuse will have to pay an extra $50 per month - or $600 per year - for the company's health insurance program. All employees have until May 1, 2014, to make an appointment with a doctor and record their vitals.

    "The approach they're taking is based on the assumption that somehow these people need a whip, they need to be penalized in order to make themselves healthy," Patient Privacy Rights founder Dr. Deborah Peel said.

    Critics are calling the policy coercion, and worrying that CVS or any other company might start firing sick workers.

    "It's technology-enhanced discrimination on steroids," Peel said.

    The policy change was introduced to employees in a memo

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  • 'Mad Men' Co-Stars Alexis Bledel, Vincent Kartheiser Engaged

    It's a match made on "Mad Men."

    "Mad Men" co-stars Alexis Bledel, 31, and Vincent Kartheiser, 33, are taking their onscreen passion offscreen. The two, who went public with their romance last October, are engaged, a representative for the actress confirmed to ABC News Radio.

    On the juicy AMC drama, Bledel plays Beth Dawes, who seduces Kartheiser's character, Pete Campbell, into a steamy affair.

    This will be the first marriage for both stars. Kartheiser previously dated actress Rachael Leigh Cook and Bledel dated her "Gilmore Girls" co-star Milo Ventimiglia for more than three years.

    PHOTOS: Hollywood's Hottest Couples

  • More and more people are taking antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications, and among that number is a growing legion of women who say these medications help them become better mothers.

    One such mother, Anne-Marie Lindsey, says her daily pill regimen wards off paralyzing panic attacks. She has an infant son, and the new mother worries about him.

    "Without the medication, my mind starts racing, and it can't stop, 'What if he gets sick? What if he gets sick? What if he gets sick?'," the New Haven, Conn., woman told "Good Morning America" in an interview that aired Wednesday on the show. "I might need to be in a bathroom with the door locked, hyperventilating, 'what if he gets sick?'"

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    A study that will be published in the medical journal, Pediatrics, next month suggests as many as one in five new mothers suffers from heightened anxiety in the weeks and months after childbirth. Researchers at Penn

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  • Tiger Woods was caught up in one of the biggest celebrity scandals in Hollywood three years ago, when he publicly apologized for a string of extramarital affairs, said he was going to rehab for sex addiction and divorced his wife.

    So what would lead champion skier Lindsey Vonn, or any woman for that matter, to date one of the world's most-famous repentant cheaters?

    "Women love bad boys," author Wendy Walsh said.

    Walsh, a sex and relationship expert who is the author of "The 30-Day Love Detox," told ABC News that America has a history of forgiving wealthy, successful and powerful men.

    Vonn, 28, might find a relationship with the 37-year-old pro golfer attractive, Walsh said, because she gets the public triumph of being the one who "tamed the Tiger."

    "The thing she wants to be more than anything in the world, mark my words, is to be the woman who changed and tamed the Tiger, the one who cured the bad boy," Walsh said. "There actually has been research done on this, that women

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  • Patti Stanger is the host of Bravo's "Millionaire Matchmaker" and a self-proclaimed love and marriage guru who founded her own matchmaking service, the Millionaire's Club.

    Stanger, 51, recently found love herself,  she said, by following her own advice laid out in her book,  'Become Your Own Matchmaker."

    "One of the steps [in the book] was to date online," Stanger said today on "Good Morning America," alongside boyfriend David Krausse.

    "I'm friends with Jenny McCarthy and Ricki Lake, and they had both done this, and they said, 'Listen, I didn't meet the one but I had a great time,'" she said.  "And I'm like, 'You know, you get older in life and you're like, where do I meet people anymore? Everybody has hooked up.'"

    Stanger discovered, unintentionally, that going online to find love allowed the well-known reality TV star some temporary  anonymity.

    "On our second date we went to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and we were having a great time and soon these people started asking

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