Hello. My name is tivonora and my fiance's name is pop-7. We met on #bbw
on the irc on efnet July of 96. We became good friends and chatted online
frequently. He saw me go in and out of bad relationships, and was always
there with a shoulder for me to cry on. Last November 96, I had a
particularly bad ending to a relationship. My best girlfriend, Jade_iis,
whom I also met in the same bbw channel, told pop that I was crying. He
msg'd me and said that he wanted to call me, and would that be alright. I
said sure. This was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. I was a little
nervous about him calling me, because this was "the pop-7". A very popular
op (although I, too, am an op on the same channel), and well, I might have
had a little crush on him that I never acted on. Anyway, he called and
talked to me for two hours and listened to me cry about the loser I had
just left, and how foolish I felt.
The next evening, I heard online that he had had some health problems and
had been rushed to the hospital. I was so worried about him. Later that
evening, he came online and asked to call me, that it would be easier to
explain on the phone than online. During the course of this conversation,
he mentioned that he was leaving the next day for a 4 day fishing trip. I
told him how worried I was..because of his health and the medication he had
to take. He promised to call me everyday to let me know how things were
going and that he had taken his medication and that he was fine.
Well on that Friday, he sent me a beatiful bouquet of red roses...did I
mention that I live in Washington State and he was in Virginia? My heart
pounded as I waited for his phone call that evening. I had never received
a floral bouquet such as that before. When he called, he said that he sent
the flowers to just make me smile because of my pain with the bad
relationship.
He got home Sunday night and got right online to find me. By then, I knew
there was something going on...my feelings for him had grown so strong over
those few days.
To make a long story short....or rather, to shorten it up some...I will
tell you that he called me everyday for the next three weeks. We were
totally in love, and knew that we wanted nothing more than to be together.
So three weeks and two days from the very first phone call, he was standing
at my front door!!
On November 8th of this year (97), at a party of our irc real life friends,
we became offically engaged...ring and all. We are going to be married on
September 27, 1998 in a double ceremony with my best friend Jade and her
love Quemen.....ah..but that's another sucess story itself!!
Don't give up folks. Love on the internet is definitly out there. And
sometimes it pops up when you might least expect it...just remember to
always stay open to the possibility of love.
With fondness,
tivonora and pop-7
tiv
tivonora@ix.netcom.com