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Well, I never thought I’d see the day. Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have gotten engaged! After all the bad publicity these crazy kids have gotten themselves into in the past several months, apparently it wasn’t enough to keep their hands off each other.

Bristol (who is on the newest cover of UsWeekly holding baby Tripp with Levi cuddling up next to her) stated to tabloid:

“We got engaged two weeks ago. It felt right, even though we don’t have the approval of our parents.”

Levi feels that their love stood a second chance when they started to work together on the custody plan for their son, Tripp. Bristol added, “When he left that night, we didn’t hug or kiss, but I was thinking how different it was. He texted me: ‘I miss you. I love you. I want to be with you again.’ I was in shock.”

Oh, please! We all know what is really going on here! Bristol is knocked up again and they can’t just play house because she’s been preaching abstinence before marriage all over the place in the last several months.

Well, I guess I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. Bristol swears that she isn’t pregnant with their second child, but then she added that they want to get married within the next six weeks or so. Hmm, cue the eye rolling.

So, what convinced her to give him a second chance? Levi’s recent public apology, in which he admits to saying “things about the Palins that were not completely true,” led Bristol to extend the olive branch and give their relationship another chance.

Well, Sarah Palin is none too pleased that her daughter is shacking up with the enemy, but she did release this statement to the ‘Today’ show (I’m assuming through clenched teeth.)

“Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”

Meaning, “my daughter may be over it, but I still want to kill him.” Come on, Sarah. Where is that Christian spirit of forgiveness? If Bristol can let bygones be bygones, (and she’s only 19) can’t you put your past in the past and move forward?

Clearly, Levi and Bristol have always wanted to be together. It makes me wonder if they didn’t even want to break up in the first place, and if mama Palin drove a wedge in between them because she had other plans for her daughter.

Bristol even states to People magazine (I know, these kids are everywhere) that if her mom hadn’t sought the spotlight and everything that went with it, she believes that “Levi and I would be married. He would still have his [oil] job on the North Slope, and we’d be in a one-bedroom apartment, scraping by.”

Kudos to Bristol for stepping out of her mother’s shadow and declaring her independence by loving the man she was forbidden to be with. (Or, at least that’s how the soap opera would play out in my mind.)