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"After 28 years together, KISS bassist Gene Simmons and his Playboy Playmate girlfriend Shannon Tweed may finally make it official.\r\nOn Tuesday&amp;apos;s season finale of the couple&amp;apos;s A&amp;amp;E reality series, Gene Simmons&amp;apos; Family Jewels, the rocker, 61, gets down on bended knee to propose to the mother of his two children.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I come with so much baggage, but you&amp;apos;re the only friend I&amp;apos;ve got. You&amp;apos;re the only one I love...and you&amp;apos;re the only one I ever will love,&amp;quot; Simmons told Tweed during a recent vacation to Belize, according to advance show excerpts obtained by E! News. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve never said those words to anybody. And I don&amp;apos;t ever want to...funny, I used to watch movies where they say I can&amp;apos;t live without you, but for me it&amp;apos;s true. Please marry me.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nWhile fans will have to wait until Tuesday&amp;apos;s episode to see if Tweed, 54, accepts, the rocker&amp;apos;s proposal is a definite deviation from his earlier views on marriage.\r\n&amp;quot;Marriage means nothing to me. Happiness means everything,&amp;quot; he once said. &amp;quot;All I see in marriage is a lot of desperately unhappy people.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nOn Twitter Monday, both Simmons and Tweed played coy as to if they&amp;apos;re engaged, though Simmons did post a telling message, proving that his love for Tweed is stronger than ever.\r\n&amp;quot;Tomorrow night I put Shannon before everything,&amp;quot; he wrote in reference to his TV proposal."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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