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Teacher Gets Surprise Marriage Proposal at Blair Mill Assembly

Teacher Alicia Bogan's boyfriend surpised her during a school assembly with "America's Got Talent" contestant David Darwin.

A teacher in the Haboro-Horsham School District got the surprise of her life Monday when she received an on-stage public marriage proposal in front of students at Blair Mill Elementary School.

Alicia Bogan’s boyfriend Mark Colantonio surprised the fourth grade teacher during a school assembly with "America's Got Talent" contestant David Darwin.

Darwin asks Bogan up to the stage to help with a trick, and shortly after Colantonio appears.

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The couple, from North Wales, have been together for a year and a half and met online.

“Alicia you have not only made me believe in love again but you showed me what true love looks like and feels like. Will you marry me?,” Colantonio says during the proposal. He then gets down on one knee/

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Bogan said yes, amid the screams of her students.

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