An Italian nurse who was caring for COVID-19 patients proposed to his girlfriend by writing a letter on his protective gear and uploading it on the social media. The girlfriend immediately said yes. According to media outlets including The Guardian on Saturday, Giuseppe Pungente who works at a hospital in Puglia, southern Italy posted a photo of himself wearing a protective gear in the hospital corridor of the respiratory wing.

On his back was a message to his girlfriend, “Carmeli, do you want to marry me?” with a “Yes” or “No” underneath. “As a nurse in the front line in the fight against the virus, I’ve developed the idea that real life is made of small and simple things such as close friends, birth family and the one of the future, together with you,” he said.