 A few years ago when I was first designing my
website, I made and put online a list of things I wished
to find in a boy. Here is a condensed version of
that list:
I would like a boy who:
...understands that I have little to no common
sense.
...has opinions and can back them up.
...loves his mommy.
...thinks I'll make a great mommy someday.
...lets me know if I'm acting like a silly girl.
...thinks that it’s cute that I do so on occasion.
...will sing to me.
...cares about grammar.
...likes old movies.
...can make me laugh ‘til my tummy hurts.
...loves my family.
...is absolutely crazy about me.
As far as I can substantiate, only one person ever
saw that list, and the following is my proof. It
came in the form of an email on December 5, 2001:
Hi, I just read your list and I was
wondering if, you know, you'd marry me or something.
-
jeff
That was all it said. Well, it also had a link
to his website which I promptly checked out, and I was
amazed by how normal he seemed to be. Amazed
because I was sure that a guy that would propose
marriage to a girl he'd never met -- who he found on the
internet, no less -- even if he wasn't serious, had to
be a weirdo. Plus, not only did he not seem to be
a crazy or a loser or something, but he actually seemed
to be the kind of guy I would like, so I emailed him
back. I figured, at the least, I might have a new
friend in California (I was living in Utah at the time).
I was right. Over the course of the next half a
year as we emailed back and forth, talked online and on
the phone for hours, and eventually met in person, he
not only became my friend but, outside of my family, my
best friend. So, when in June of 2002 I was looking
to get a new job, I decided to move out to California to
see if we could make a full-blown relationship of it.
I never figured that less than two years after that
email of proposal Jeff would ask me to marry him
again... and I'd say yes.
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