Back in the 90’s I had a PC that I built, and an internet connection. A friend of mine would come over once a week just to visit a singles chat room. Eventually, he decided to open a singles chat for Christians when MSN had that. Facebook wasn’t a thing yet. It didn’t take but a few weeks for his chatroom to hop big time. There were hundreds of chatters in his room. One day he received an email from a woman, and they hit it off. She was from the Philippines, a doctor. He had a face impediment and so did she. It wasn’t very long before they met in person, she was living in Canada, so she flew in to meet him. Over a year or two, they fell in love, and they married. But she had to return to Canada because her visa ran out. He put the process thru the paces, and got her to be able to come in legally as a permanent resident. And then she became a citizen, got her pharmacy licence because the US wouldn’t accept her MD credentials, but did honor some of her efforts.
They’ve been married ever since, and have a child.
He’d been all over the world during his years in National guard, but that special someone wasn’t found till that chatroom happened. It took almost two years from their wedding until she could come “home” to her new husband, but they did it. It was agonal for them at times.
There may be 350 million or so people in this country, but you never know where this special person will be found.
Both of them relief heavily on God to bring them together from around the world.
I do hope this Neely freed man and his wife, the best.
Lovely story. Thanks for sharing it. :-)
Well, there ya go.
I do think some Freepers could be a tad less judgmental.
So he met a woman online. Lots of people meet that way these days. He didn’t deserve to be thrown into a Venezuelan prison over it.