Back in January of 2003, I joined a MOHAA (Medal of Honor Allied Assault) gaming clan. I am still there, its called BHC which stands for Bravery Honor Courage. I have always enjoyed it, its the second clan I have been a major part of (Other one was a XWA clan called DS which I was in for over a couple years) anyways I have always loved clans.

About a year into my BHC "career", a person joins by the name of Killer103B. She does the best she can to clear up the fact that yes, she is a GIRL who likes to play Medal of Honor. At first of course some people are skeptical because its common for people to impersonate females and use that to get into clans. But we hear her on TeamSpeak (voice chat program) and then all doubt is removed.

Of course, throwing a young girl into the mix of about 100 lonely guys isnt always pretty, she took a lot of crap. At first I never really knew her, I never made an attempt to start off conversation because I knew she already probably took too much of that and I didnt want to bug her anymore that she already got bugged. She put up with it though.

So come spring break this year, the person who assigns recruits into squads of our clan places her in my squad, she was one of four people below me. Cool I though, this should be interesting. We played in our clan server a lot, but at first nothing other than just clan business came about. As time went on, we started talking more and more on AIM and Teamspeak, I find out that she lives in New York, almost 3000 miles away from me, I learn a little bit about her social life and how she is having a tough time with her boyfriend etc. I notice that we really seem to have a lot in common, and she notices it too. We start writing emails to each other and things kinda start to take off between us.

About a month after we met, it clicks that because my father works for SBC (Major communications company in the US) we get completely free unlimited long distance calling to anywhere in the US. So one day when her computer went down, I get an email from one of her friends with her phone number telling me to call her. So I did. Major boost in the relationship, because now we can talk to each other not just at the computer but wherever we go. From this point things completely took off, and i dont know how else to say it, we fell completely in love with each other.

It was like this for a couple of months, we logged on average 70 hours per month of time on the phone (ive got the bill to prove it). So many nights where we just stayed up ALL night on the phone talking to each other, even a few occasions where one of us fell asleep on the phone. We talked a lot about meeting, but it was usually like after high school, maybe in a couple years one of us can fly out to see the other. We wanted that so bad.

When the phone came into the picture is when our parents really started to figure out what was going on. At one point my dad talked to her mom and they seemed to get along, neither one of them had a problem with the relationship, they even felt sorry for us because they cannot imagine loving somebody who lived so far away and not being able to see them.

One day, out of the blue, my dad says "Andy, why dont we invite her out for for 2 weeks?" I just about **** my pants that he brought that up. I talked to her and she went crazy, but her mom was unsure about it. A 15 year old traveling by herself across the country to California to stay with a completely unkown family for 2 weeks? I can understand where she was coming from, and basically it wasnt going to happen. However her mom did mention that she could think about having me over to her house. We got so excited, we didnt care who went where as long as we got to see each other.

So we did. Our parents got together, and we planned a trip for me to fly out there and stay with her family for 12 days, July 24th - August 4th. I left San Francisco International early the 24th, stopped in Chicago for a 3 hour layover, and then took a smaller plane to Syrcause (close to where she lives) and they picked me up there.

I had the best time of my life, the first couple days we spent there, then we drove down to Gettysburg for a couple days, then back to her house for a couple days, then fimally we went over to Niagara Falls for a couple days.

Here are pictures if you want to see them.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/drewster61987/my_photos

As far as the relationship, we completely hit it off. We fell so insanely in love with each other it almost hurt.

The thing that killed me the most was leaving. I have never hurt more, the look on her face as she had to sit there and watch me walk away when I left the Airport. She cried the entire day after I left and she still kinda bursts into tears sometimes when I talk to her on the phone now that I am home. We are now trying to get a trip planned for her to come out to California really soon. Hopefully, now that her mom has met me (I met her entire family and they all just absolutely love me) she will be more comfortable with letting her come out to California.

Oh well, sorry if nobody really cares about this, I just thought it was a really cute and somewhat inspirational story that would be nice to share. Just a few months after we first meet, living on opposite sides of the country, we actually got a chance to meet each other, and everybody who saw of together and got to know us says we are perfect for each other and they say they can see us being together for a very long time...we have both been in relationships before, some that even lasted close to 2 years and it was NOTHING like what we have now. Plus the distance apart makes the moments together all the more special, and hopefully someday we will be truly together, we both really want that and talk about it a lot.

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awwwww

And now for a picture of a kitten.



Congratulations.

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Wow, that's awesome. I had a long distance relationship for a while (not that long though) from the Internet, some of you know about it. Hope yours goes as well as mine did.

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[This message has been edited by Echoman (edited August 06, 2004).]

Ok that cat just scares me... it is too damn cute

Congrats man

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Thrawn's pic reminds me of the brain bug from starship troopers.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

But anyway, that's sweet. Very few parents would let their children travel across the country like that...

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I prefer this one:


Edit: She looks young enough to be my younger sister.. how old are you again?

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[This message has been edited by Dormouse (edited August 06, 2004).]

That's cute.

See, you guys did it correctly. You weren't LOOKING for someone online, you just sort of hit it up. That's how it should be done, with online dating. If you just happen to start talking more and more, and start calling eachother, etc, it's a REAL relationship. Going to hot or not is a sure fired way to NOT get a good spouse out of the deal.

This also proves that video-games can do more than just shoot up a school.

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Live on, Adam.

I don't know, there's just something about the eyes and the shape that the spider-kitten doesn't have.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

i also had a long distance relation ship like dat just started like 3 weeks ago and i live in Minnesota and she lives in New Hampshire the only way to see her is on Aol Instant Messenger

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Wow. Thrawn, that cat is fugly.

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That's quite a story, man. Props to yuor parents and hers for being cool and letting you meet and stuff.

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Awesome. See, not EVERY internet relationship is teh sux.


So...when do you plan to have children?

*readies sharp knife*

>:D

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I am 17 and she is 15. A very mature 15...

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Live on, Adam.

Martyn approves greatly of your relationship - well done man! I hope you two have the time of your lives together!

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Good on ya. Glad to hear you found happiness. Hopefully everything works out. Sounds like you've built things the way they should be built.



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Sounds awesome. I hope it lasts a long time.

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YES!

....and that's kind of weird... I dont know if I could EVER do that. The whole... online relationship thing just doesnt do it for me.

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Dash...has anyone told you that you look like Hayden Christensen?

Also, the teamspeak you were using must have been better than the built in voice chat on UT2k4. Girls and prepubescent boys sound exactly the same on that thing.

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Wow.. i could barely /spell/ love at those ages..

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Strangely enough, no. In fact, I'd love do have one as a pet!

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ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

Oh, yes you know thats what i want!


YES, YES! WORK IT! OH GOD, WORK IT.

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Hey, that's pretty amazing story.

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That's awesome man. Good to see someone's long distance relationship work for a change.

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Thats a wonderfull story.

I'm so glad things worked out for you!

You definatly brightened up my day with that story.

(Not that it was bad, but I'm just in a really happy mood now. )

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SBC are probably going to send ninjas after you over those phone bills you know...

Thats really cool. I hope it works out for you 2.

Love is a beautiful thing.

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A amazing story indeed.. I can relate, seriously.. I met kori-lynn strang two weeks ago sunday.. Her birthday, few days before I sent her a e-mail because I was bored one night.. My usual "hey how are you? well im good, if your intrested to chat.. blah blah blah..." And then she was like, hmmm... Not a bad guy to be talking to.. I mean we live in the same town, Little I knew she lived up the street from me.. And I can relate to the fact, you just met someone.. Things are pretty great on the understanding of love.. *raises beer mug to dash!* Cheers, oh and kori is 18.. im 19.. she was born july 25th 1986.. me dec 2nd 1984.. All I have to say is, atleast you guys are lucky to hold back your temptations..

See.. we are in so much in love, well you can relate to that feeling with your girl dash.. But we are so much in love, we cant leave the room without a hot makeout session.. And im pretty sure you guys know what its like to be with a girlfriend on the rag.. We were to take it one step at a time.. Two weeks later.. Hehe.. Come next week maybe.. :P.. Yeah I know.. Im crazy.. Crazy for her.. But man.. Love happens almost instantly.. You wont know it till it happens..

Dash, congratulations my man. I know what its like in your shoes just the same! To be truly happy with someone is rare to have. In more ways then one. Hats off to you. Good luck in your relationship. Not that you need it .

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