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Up to that point, she did not think of him as boyfriend material, much less a potential husband, because her parents wanted her to designer handbags wholesale. “I have always been very sensitive to pleasing my parents,” she said.

The kiss, she said, began to change her attitude, as did the icons next to his name as she read Gotham magazine’s 2009 “designer handbags on sale” rankings. Along with a pile-of-money icon, which meant he was wealthy, and a pile-of-books icon, which meant he was smart (he has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and an M.B.A. from Columbia), he also had an apple-pie icon, which meant he was good to take home to Mom.

“I know it sounds silly, but that really got me cheap designer handbags,” she said. “I really started wondering if my parents, although he wasn’t Korean, would love him, too, for their daughter.”

Sensing he was making discount designer handbags, and after several more dates, Mr. Varet invited himself to visit her in South Korea, where she spent her summers. Her parents, Chang and Susan Kim, have homes in Seoul, Dallas and Kona, Hawaii. But two days before Mr. Varet was scheduled to leave for South Korea, he had a biking accident on the Hudson River bike path and fractured his left kneecap. His doctor advised against travel, but Mr. Varet, designer handbags.