How to pronounce "implied"

I didn't consider how many times we would each have to make that choice,

and how many times I will continue to have to make that choice

without knowing whether or not he will always choose me.

I want it to be enough to have asked and answered 36 questions,

and to have chosen to love someone so generous and kind and fun

and to have broadcast that choice in the biggest newspaper in America.

But what I have done instead is turn my relationship

into the kind of myth I don't quite believe in.

And what I want, what perhaps I will spend my life wanting,

is for that myth to be true.

I want the happy ending implied by the title to my article,

which is, incidentally,

the only part of the article that I didn't actually write.

(Laughter)

But what I have instead is the chance to make the choice to love someone,

and the hope that he will choose to love me back,

and it is terrifying,

but that's the deal with love.

Thank you.