Henry Love Angel proposed several times to Margaret Mitchell (author to be of the famous 1936 American novel Gone with the Wind). Margaret finally accepted his ring, as shown here on the photo, but eventually returned it to him again. She married Red Upshaw instead on Sept 2, 1922. Margaret soon discovered, however, that she had made a mistake, separated within a year & divorced him in 1924. So she lived heartache and I'm sure that helped her write it!