Today I am sharing a lovely story of two people who met on AOL personals, but by complete accident as Crystal was online trying to help a friend find a guy. When Crystal happened upon David’s ad she thought he was cute and upon being dared by her friend to contact him, she did. After a month of talking online and over the phone Crystal met David in person. Living about forty-five minutes away from each other the meet was an easy commute. Within nine months they had started planning their wedding, when they found out a nice surprise – they were pregnant! Five months later they were wed and the rest is history! Since becoming pregnant with their first born, Crystal and David have welcomed another child into their …
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I Met My Love Online: EDD and DEE’s Story
Told in Dee’s own words… I met my spouse in the now defunct AOL chat rooms in 1998. We were in the Buddhist chat room. There were five women and one man talking about the difficulties in getting our families to accept our philosophical choice of non-Judaic/Christian religions. Someone made the comment that it was difficult to find a man who would accept our decision. Ed said, I’m a man Then the discussion turned to the acceptability of Ed as a boyfriend. I said, he is probably too young or too old. When everyone revealed their ages there were two of us close to Ed’s age; Myself and another woman. Then the discussion was who lived closer. I was the closest, living within two hours of his home. The other …
Sometimes A Draft Should Stay a Draft
I set up Google Alerts for everything from my family’s names to my blog name. Google Alerts are a way to ensure I am close to the first to know whenever someone has linked to my name or a family member, this also works well for seeing what type of press is out there for you. As a blogger and a business owner it’s vital you know what is being put out on the internet with your name attached to it. Today I received a list of Google Alerts for @brandyellen and an AOL website came up. I clicked to go see what this alert was all about and to my amazement it was a link to AOL Video and at that link was an old review I happened to …
