Who Needs a Ring to Propose When There Are Puppies and Paintings?
In a special box on Lauren Viera’s jewelry stand is her most precious possession. It’s a dried-up, shriveled leaf. The leaf, found on the floor of a hut, was presented to her in 2013, wrapped in the shape of a ring when Ms. Viera’s now-husband, Jason Tinkey, a 41-year-old geographer, proposed on a beach in…