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A mom helped her ex-husband propose to his girlfriend

She said she wanted their two kids to see "that love and respect can still exist after divorce"

The mom's video of the proposal went viral on TikTok, with one viewer commenting, "That's what maturity and healing look like"

When Derek Silver was planning a surprise proposal for his girlfriend, he turned to an unlikely person for help: his ex-wife, Heather.

The photographer, who goes by Heather Jae online, teamed up with her ex on a sneaky setup, inviting his girlfriend, Kaylin Drumeller, to a Virginia rooftop under the pretext of participating in a glamorous photo shoot, per Today.com .

“I lost all of my business accounts, so I asked them to ‘model’ for me,” Heather said of the ruse in a TikTok video capturing th

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