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October 14, 2006

Seven years ago

Seven years ago today, Amanda and I began our relationship roughly seven days after meeting each other in person.

For those that don't know, Amanda and I met online when she was down in Murray, KY attending college at Murray State University. The funny thing was that we were both from Frankfort. We ran in the same circle of friends but we never once met. It was only when she moved Western Kentucky did our paths cross.

The story behind our meeting was purely by coincidence. I had just gotten out of a relationship a few weeks prior and wasn't ready to get into another one at this point. One night I was bored and went to Excite.com to browse the forums. Now, what's wierd about this is that prior to this day, I had never once visited the Excite.com Web site and to this day I never go there. Heck, I don't know if it still exists or not ...

Hmmm, I guess it does.

So, while I'm browsing I come across this posting in the forums from some woman. I don't know who she is, where she's from or nothing. The post was quite sad. It explained how she had gone through so many bad relationships in the past few months (or years, I'm a little vague on the period of time). She went on to say that she was really beginning to feel that there was no such thing as a "good man".

Well, that did it for me. I registered an account on Excite and posted a reply to the forum message. I didn't have much to say other than something along the lines of "Don't worry, there are good guys out there. You just got to keep looking." After the post, I signed offline and didn't think about it much until the next day when I received an e-mail from this anonymous person.

She introduced herself as "Amanda". Keeping in mind that I wasn't looking for any kind of relationship, I thought that it might be a good idea to e-mail back. After all, there was nothing wrong with having an online friend ... something that I was very familiar with after working at MSN for a few years in the mid-90s. We e-mailed back and forth quite a bit just trying to get to know one another. Eventually, one of us asked where the other was from.

Once we found out that I was in Frankfort and that she was from there as well, the convesation got to be very interesting. We began to ask if we knew certain people. Sure enough, Amanda knew quite a few people that I knew and vice versa. I worked with one of her very close friends when I was the bar manager at Tumbleweed.

We moved from e-mails to talking on the phone once in a while. One day she told me that she was coming back home to Frankfort for the weekend and asked if I wanted to meet up. I told her that sounded like fun, so we agreed to meet the Thursday night she got in.

There's more to the story, but I posted that last year. Feel free to read up on that one if you want to know more about how that Saturday went.

Thank God for me being bored one night.

...out~

Posted by ed at October 14, 2006 10:15 AM

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