We met one night in Chicago Web Chat Room. Although neither of us live anywhere near Chicago, we had both somehow ended up in this room. I was acting up in the room for a laugh, Tommy thought I was pretty funny and he decided to join me. We got chatting online, and discovered we both had ICQ. We chatted a lot in the chat room as well as on ICQ, and then I decided to call him. I can't explain it, but the moment I heard his voice I knew I loved him. At this stage we were just good friends, but as time progressed, something changed and we grew closer.My phone bill went sky high, as we talked for 4-5 hours at a time!!!! There was so much to say!! We were never short of conversation.

To me a relationship with Tommy seemed impossible as we lived to far away from each other, but to Tommy it was just a small wall that needed to be broken down. After a few months he sent me money for a plane ticket. My friends and family thought I had lost my mind, wondering how I could have possibly fallen in love with a man I had never met. But the simple fact is, we were very emotionally close, and we communicated very well, the only thing missing was the physical part.

After a LONG time waiting, the day finally came around for me to leave home, into the unknown......My family saw me off at the airport, mum was crying, my brother asked me if I was nervous. I was not at all. Very excited, but not nervous.

After 20 hours and 3 plane changes, I finally arrived in New Orleans. As I walked out of the terminal, I saw him. He was holding up a sign with my nickname written on it, looking very nervous. But as soon as he saw me he began to smile, I was grinning from ear to ear. We hugged, and kissed, and he whispered in my ear " I love you Catrina". Then we just stood back and looked at each other for a moment, taking each other in. There wasn't a moment of nervousness between us, it was like reuniting with my long lost love.

I have been here in Mississippi with Tommy for 2 months now,and we have decided to settle in New Zealand, so we are returning home soon. Our families are over the moon, and we fall in love more and more every passing day. I have never felt this way for anyone before, and I am grateful for technology. I may never have found my soulmate, had it not been for the internet.

I want everyone to know, that it is possible, and it can work. If the feelings are there, it is not a figment of your imagination!!! It is quite real!And wonderful, and beautiful. We plan to marry in Fiji, in September 2000. In the meantime we act like a married couple, like we have always been together, and I think it has do to with the fact that we talked for so long that we know each other inside out.

Last but not least, I just want to say to my Tommy, thank you for having faith, and beleiving in us. I love you baby, forever.


Catrina

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