Christopher Robinson, a Seattle poet and author whom Knox has been dating since 2015, proposed via an elaborate, space-themed stunt involving a fake meteorite, a futuristic tablet and the phrase “the Knox-Robinson Coalescence.”
Knox, 31,first shared a clip of the proposalon her Instagram, writing, “It was just your average Sunday night, when suddenly…” She then linkedto the full videoon YouTube.
As she finished reading, Robinson, 36, proposed (sans ring — as he explained in text at the end of the video, Knox doesn’t wear them).
“Will you stay with me until the last star in the last galaxy burns out and even after that?” he asked. “Amanda Marie Knox, will you marry me?
Gushing, she said yes, later asking, “How did you do this?”
“This insanity was over a year in the making,” Robinson wrote at the end of the video. “Special thanks to everyone who kept zipped lips.”
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Knox was not looking for love when, she told PEOPLE last year, it crept up on her again.
“When I first came home, I was afraid that the prosecution’s narrative would forever limit and define me,” she said.
Knox and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were twice convictedin the 2007 murderof her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, when Knox was 20, and she spent four years in prison during her detention and prosecution.
Italy’s highest courteventually exonerated her and Sollecitoin 2015. A third person, Rudy Guede, was also convicted of Kercher’s murder and remains behind bars.
“I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing,” Knox said. “Whether I deserved it or not, there was nothing I could do but accept that the story of the girl accused of murdering her roommate would be the frame through which people viewed and consumed me, and through which I had to pass to live my life.”
“I can’t tell you how grateful I am that things didn’t turn out that way,” she said.
Back in the States, Knox finished college, started writing an arts column for theWest Seattle Heraldand steadily found her voice as an activist for others facing wrongful convictions.
“I was probably the only person at the party who didn’t really know who she was,” Robinson told PEOPLE last year at his home with Knox. “I knew [about] Italy and some legal stuff and something that shouldn’t have happened. But I didn’t really know her story.”
Some days later, Knox sat down with Robinson and his co-author at Robinson’s home to interview them. “Then we drank Scotch and watchedStar Trek,” he said.
It was an “amazing” moment, she said, “because that hadn’t happened to me yet, where I came home and someone I didn’t know — who I admired for their accomplishments but also thought of potentially as a peer — could be my friend.”
By late 2015, she and Robinson were dating. They moved in 2016 into a rented one-bedroom bungalow in Seattle along with Knox’s cats: Mr. Screams, Mr. Fats and Emil.
“I don’t want to get married for the sake of getting married,” Knox said then. “My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world … and I very much love Chris and feel like he is my partner, and he would be a wonderful dad and we talk about it all the time. So I look forward to that part of my life that I had always taken for granted growing up and then had to let go of in prison.”
Robinson contrasted the Knox he knows with the woman who appears in the Emmy-nominatedNetflix documentaryAmanda Knox, in which she participated.
“When something matters and she cares about it, she doesn’t just let it slide. She puts her foot down and stands up for what she believes is just,” he said. “But just because she’s that person doesn’t mean that we also don’t swing dance in the kitchen while we’re making dinner. We have a lot of fun together, and we let that whimsy carry us.”
Said Knox: “I imagine Christopher and I will have many conversations with our children over the years, beginning at the beginning.”
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source: people.com
