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The True Tales of Couples Who Met Online: Princesses Who Kissed Their Cyber Frogs and Got a Real Time Prince

~ Javagirl ~

Happy Millennium!

My cyber pals, I have missed you! I wholeheartedly apologize for my absent articles the past few months. Ms. Javagirl has been real time busy; and, please don't gasp in shock, but she has reunited with the RT love of her life (let's just call him JavaMan for argument's sake). Alas, we did not meet online (our meeting is a story unto itself) but the Javagirl is still singing from the rooftops (no, it's not from all the mochas I've been imbibing lately). Don't worry, I still get my fill of the Net and still continue my Net-ships (friendships) and perusal of what makes America's Online Date Scene hum and tick.

With the dawn of the New Millennium and with a fresh perspective on love in the 00's, I'd like to share with you the sweet tale of Cyber Princesses who found their true love online and married them.

My horoscope for Gemini 2000 said that I must spread good news and be positive lest my karma will kick me in the butt so here she is, Javagirl, back spreading cheer and hope amongst you Cyber Daters of Y2K. So I'd thought I'd jumpstart the online mush-pots out there and get the heartstrings a-pluckin' for the real deal.

I came across a heartwarming story of a lovely lady from the East Coast named Kashmir* who met her husband online. Not only did they meet online but he was also on the other side of the world in Sweden. Through endless hours of chatting and emails and the rocky hardships of Net dating, they overcame their Net courting predicament and fell hopefully and madly in love with each other. Here is the sweet tale of two people who met online and are now married.

"He came in the room one day through his own web page. It was July 1, 1998. I logged onto his homepage and looked around. I noticed it was his Birthday that day. So I decided to sign his guestbook and wish him a Happy Birthday ~S~. Two days later he came into The Lobby and he approached me to thank me for wishing him a Happy Birthday. We started talking online for awhile and then he started calling me. We talked everyday and night like 2 teenagers *L*.

"I knew it was love, for our conversations got deeper and deeper. We confessed secrets and fantasies and desires with each other that we have never told anyone else. At the end of July, he called me at work and told me he bought a plane ticket to come out to see me. I was so happy and ecstatic that I was finally going to meet him. His flight was going to arrive in Utah on September 24, 1998. You see . . . he is from Holland. ~S~ We suffered so many tribulations on the Net from people who caused us so much pain to try to break us up, but our love and trust in each other got us through it all. We didn't let anything stand in our way of being together. We laughed and cried and shed so many tears through it all until the final day arrived.

"On September 24, 1998 at 10:00 P.M., I was on my way to the airport to pick him up. I was waiting at the gate where he was supposed to arrive. The door opened and all these people started coming out...then I saw the flight crew came out . . . but he was not there. My heart started beating fast for I thought that he chickened out or was unsure about our love that he didn't get on the plane.

"I walked up and asked a stewardess if that was all the people on the plane. She said yes and asked if someone was supposed to be on it that wasn't. I explained that my boyfriend was supposed to be on Flight so and so...and she said that the plane that just landed was not that flight number and the one I wanted was going to be landing in 10 minutes. I sighed a huge sigh of relief and sure enough 15 minutes later another plane arrived. I stood there waiting; my heart beating fast . . . my palms sweaty . . . then I saw him . . . I knew from the first moment that it was him. The look in his eyes assured me that we were truly meant for each other~S~ I walked up to him looked in his eyes and said 'Hello' . . . we kissed and guess what . . . he never went back to Holland.

"We got married in November of 1998 and are still as happy, if not more happy, than we were when he first kissed my lips. Our love grows stronger every day and I have found my lover, my best friend and soul mate for life. On-line loves do happen . . . and as I said . . . don't look for love . . . it'll find you."

Mac-Daddy's Girl* is also proof that you can find a long-term Prince in a chat room.

"I met my husband at this chat site also but we didn't rush right into things. We waited 5 months to meet in person. By then you know if you have met an honest, decent person. After waiting that long we both knew we were doing the right thing and now we are very happily married. Best advice I can give is don't give up and if you really want it then keep striving for it."

I think all of us who are looking for both cyber and real time Princes and Princesses can learn a lesson from Kashmir* and Mac-Daddy's Girl*. What's the line in that cheesy, twangy country song? "Lookin' for love in all the wrong places?" Hmm, I don't think that is Kashmir's and Mac-Daddy's Girl song. I think they found love in all the right places on the 'Net. Like Kashmir said, "Don't look for love, it'll find you."

P.S. Our dear hosts of this wonderful site, Atreides and Cerissa, also met on the Internet. More proof that love does exist on the World Wide Wacky Web!

* Real time names have changed to chat handles.