Watch an Adorable Flip-book End in a Surprise Proposal

By Tessa Berenson

Updated: February 12, 2015 11:28 AM ET | Originally published: February 11, 2015

The bride-to-be says her fateful night began at the zoo.

The Lincoln Park Zoo lights festival in Chicago, to be exact, which is where, on a very cold night, her boyfriend said he wanted to give her an early Christmas present.

“Seriously, right now? Are you crazy?” she recounts on HowHeAsked.com.

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But he was serious, and he wasn’t crazy, and so he handed his future fiancee this flip-book made by The Flippist.

“Of course, I started bawling,” she writes of the surprise ending. “I almost got frostbite afterwards because I refused to put my gloves back on!”

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