I posted a profile on Yahoo! Personals after being single so long and not finding anyone in my hometown, I figured it was worth a shot. Since I'm not into the bar scene, and I'm a total computer geek, I just thought I'd see what happened. Little did I know how it would all end!

Mike was one of many respondents to my ad, but his message stood out due to its sheer length and the fact that he actually sounded normal and just what I was looking for! We began emailing nearly every day, learning more about each other. Eight months after our first email, I decided to move to Colorado and emailed Mike that I didn't think we should write or talk anymore because it just wasn't working out.

Several months later, I was really starting to have a hard time. I really needed to talk to someone. Lucky for me, I caught Mike on Yahoo! Messenger that night. We started chatting every night and after a while, we started talking on the phone again. I started to realize that I really liked this guy! I let him know that I was going to come home for Labor Day weekend. We decided to finally meet in person at a softball game that he would be coaching on Aug. 30, 2001 -- one year and two months after we first met online at Yahoo! Personals.

I went to the softball game very nervous, but when I saw him, I calmed down and enjoyed the games. (I thought he was a total hottie!) After the game we finally met when Mike found me and said, "Come here!" And gave me a hug. Wow! We went to dinner and afterwards came back to the park and sat on the swings and talked for several hours. I had to go back to Colorado, but I knew there was something special brewing. Three weeks after we finally met in person, I lost my job in Colorado. I moved back to Nebraska and I got a job in the same town that Mike lived in. In March 2002 he proposed, and we were married in July 2003. We are just so happy to have found each other.

At first a lot of people were pretty skeptical of how we met, and they were very shocked that we were able to find each other. I really feel like this was a great method of looking for potential dates without wasting people's time trying to figure out what, if anything, you even have in common, because it gives an outlet to lay everything on the line. It pretty well narrowed down the field for me to help me find more specifically what I was looking for. You just never know where Prince Charming might be waiting!

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