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Alethea Kontis

College dreams and teen love find common ground in 'Promposal'

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"Promposal," a term born within the last dozen or so years, is exactly what one would imagine it to be: an invitation to the prom that's wedding-proposal-level romantic and often very public.

From rooms full of balloons and lockers filled with ping pong balls to song and dance routines that would make anyone's heart melt, promposals have become a regular, spectacular high school event. In RaeChell Garrett's delightful book of the same name, Black teen entrepreneur Autumn Reeves launches a start-up called Promposal Queen, where she is paid to help conceive and execute these elaborate proposals for her fellow classmates.

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