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Internet dorks R us: Still feeling the sensation

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Contributed by: Amber Johnson on 2/14/2007

The year was 1997. My beloved James and I were out-of-state college students at the same time, graduated from the same department, walked through the same graduation ceremonies, had many common friends and regularly played volleyball together on the same court one summer...and yet never met.

It took a glorious thing called the Internet to finally bring us together many years later. He was in Denver, I in Salt Lake City. I had just endured a long-distance romance and vowed I would never do that again. That avowal lasted about a week. He, too had no interest in something long distance. In his words: "I just wanted a date."

Despite the odds, I came across his online profile. It was not his dashing good looks that initially struck me (his photo was taken from five miles away) or his poetry and prose (i.e. "I like eating good food") but rather thestrong impression that I needed to write him. Immediately.

Our connection was immediate. James first knew it was love when I expounded upon mountaineering and random ancient profundities. I knew James was The One when he googled my name and read every single news article I had ever written. Either that or he was a stalker. Fortunately, he proved to be the former.

After countless e-mails and phone calls over the next two months, we planned to meet. By this time, it had been revealed to both of us in a very powerful way that we would get married. Imagine, if you will, how you'd feel opening the door to a person you'd never laid eyes on, yet knowing he was The One.

And only to discover when you first saw him that he was wearing the T-shirt you'd sent him as a joke, the one that said "Dork, Feel the Sensation."

Four years later, we're still feeling it. And we have two beautiful children who are, too as we live our Happily Ever After....

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Amber Johnson

Arvada , CO

Amber Johnson has posted 9 stories and 2 comments since joining on 9/14/2005. Amber Johnson 's average story rating is 5.

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