He said he would never make that mistake again while looking at the ring. Then he hung the ring on a wind chime. He was married before. You don’t say things like this if you haven’t experienced it yet.
Yeah, the lady she runs into is the ML’s family friend not her best friend from high school. If you go back to chapter 33 when the ML called to ask if the family friend deleted the voicemail, it seems like it’s the same person.