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Dave and Shelley's Story Or How We Found Our Soulmate Online
Part 1
Our story begins back in 1994 after Dave's last divorce...
"Oh, yeah, I was beaten to a bloody pulp in that one and suffered a nervous breakdown with severe depression and suicidal tendencies. It was the worst...
Like other folks with computers and Internet access, I turned to my computer and became a recluse. To help keep my mind off my troubles I developed The Lonely Hearts Club as a project that I built and maintained.
The basis of The Lonely Hearts Club site was to give people the opportunity to use the Internet as a resource to find their soulmate. In this early stage, people could submit their personals free, although they could not post a photo or reveal their location as part of the ad. My reasons for this was that I believed that your perfect match was out there, why cloud up the issue with photos or locations when the advantage of using the Internet focused on avoiding geographic restrictions.
After maintaining the site for a few months, I took a chance at meeting people online. My first attempt was prefaced by experimenting with chatrooms, which I found to be quite addictive. The result of this method of meeting people generated two bad experiences. I had made some mistakes by being too honest and open in a venue that was extremely public. The results were unpleasant to say the least.
Then (a little smarter and more experienced) I turned to The Lonely Hearts Club and placed a personal ad there using "Fred" as an alias. I also used my experience to encourage other users of The Lonely Hearts Club to obtain free e-mail addresses from places like usa.net or hotmail in order to maintain anonymity while dating online as a safety precaution.
My ad was simple and contained key phrases and words, "not looking for romance," and, "friendship." My main focus was an attempt to find a relationship to replace that of my best friend who was too occupied with his new marriage to offer support. I received periodic replies, although a great deal of the replies wanted more than friendship and at some point the so-called "friends" I had made all faded away one-by-one.
Then in in the summer of 1996, I received an e-mail from a gal using "Wilma" as her alias."
Shelley says, "I had been a single mom raising two children for six years and there was no way that I was going to put them or myself at risk. I came to The Lonely Hearts Club through a link featured on the site of the local Internet provider that we used at work. I liked the way that The Lonely Hearts Club was set-up and the fact that I could participate anonymously.
Fred's ad caught my eye, because I really wasn't looking for romance but was looking for someone that could be an e-mail buddy or a friend with no strings attached.
I thought it would be cute to reply as, "Wilma."
Out of all the responses that I received, there was only one, "Wilma".
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THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE TRUE . . .
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