‘Will You Marry Me?’ … After She Saw the Size of the Ring, She Said, ‘Yes’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times INDIA AND DR. MAURICE MYERS Live: Chelsea Married: May 18, 2019 Met: On Good Friday, April 3, 2015, at the Blue Monkey Lounge on Birmingham’s southside. They were invited to hang out by mutual friends, and Maurice was “knee deep” in a lecture on financial success when he said he noticed that India couldn’t care less about the conversation and “I was coming out to have a good time, not get financial advice,” India laughed. “I was thinking who is this diminutive, little lady not paying attention to these powerful tidbits of information,” Maurice laughed. After the talk, Maurice said India was sitting across the room, so he invited her to have a seat next to him and ordered a few drinks to soften the atmosphere and have a cordial conversation. “I still think she was more interested in the drinks than the conversation, but I kept them coming for everybody,” Maurice laughed. After the gathering, the group returned to one of their mutual friends’ homes to hang out. It was there that Maurice asked India for her phone number and India remembered Maurice called the next day although he recalled...