Wow-your first anniversary is the day before my b-day! AND the anniversary (15th) of when we landed in Houston with my oldest daughter, adopted from Russia (age 9). Good day, very good day indeed.

I'll write more later, but the pic won't load

Poetman

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Rodger Swan 12/19/1986-1/26/2010 Gone too soon, remembered forever. R.I.P my friend.

You have everything that I have to give; it is the only way that Love truly exists. You and I are each One, and we are both One~E

I cannot be accurately judged by the meat and bone wrapped around me - its features were not my choice.~E

I Love you. Love Me as I Love you, you are Me. you are not me; only here are we we, separate rather than Me, One.~E

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YOU look sooooooooooo in looooove!!!!!

Yes you are a beautiful couple!! One of these days you'll be posting wedding pictures!!

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I agree Poetman, it IS a good day! We started counting from the day we first talked over voice chat 'cause that's when it all started, and it was obvious to both of us that there was something there even that first night.

Thanks, Gail! I AM ridiculously in love with him!! Right after we took that picture (he hates having his picture taken but didn't grumble at me when I said yes to the waiter's offer, haha) he was like "no smiling!" and I was all heartbroken, "you didn't smile!?" But when we got the picture back, he really was smiling just a little, even if he THOUGHT he wasn't, and I teased him about it. I always tell him that I can tell when he's faking it because when he's with me he's always smiling, even just a little - the corners of his mouth give him away. He's always "noooo, they don't! I can frown if I wanna!" but he can't, not really, and when he saw the picture he was like "...I see what you're talking about now, and darn you, I didn't even know I did that!" xD He was also holding me like that before the picture was taken.. we didn't have to get any closer for the camera.

He's having trouble sleeping now that I'm gone it's easier for me this time, though, because I was the one who visited, so at least I got to come back to my cat and my apartment.. whereas he just has to deal with my absence, now. It sucks. My heart breaks for him 'cause I went through that last time and it was absolutely horrible!

I just found out yesterday that our plans might be interrupted or that they might need to be finagled a bit, because my mom has to have a hysterectomy. I'm torn between wanting him here for that desperately and wanting him to come before/after so he can take my mind off of it. I think I'd just rather have him here, though, honestly, because it's going to be really hard either way, and I'll probably be helping her afterwards anyways, so unless he came before (when I'd be worried), there's no real way around it. He said that if I want him there, of course he'll be there, so I just have to decide. I don't know when she'll be having it done yet, but it'll probably be pretty soon, which totally sucks. I kinda knew this was coming but it's quite something else to have it actually happen now. I wish my mom would stop having surgeries!!! It's like ever since I went off to college she always needs to have something done.

Sooo... slight complications, but we'll manage.

And Gail - yes! I never really thought about getting married seriously but suddenly and quite unexpectedly I've been thinking an awful lot about engagement rings. :P I know he wants to ask me, too, and is just waiting for the right time, and I knoooow he's right, but I'm still impatient (and so is he)! If he asked me to marry him tomorrow, I would. lol. Although my mom would probably think I've lost it. ;D But I can't wait to marry him!

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I finally got your pic to load and you know, he reminds me Edward Scissorhands! The dark hair, the style, the slight smile-all very scrumptious and you do indeed make a super cute couple In Love! Now to get the big cheesy grins to come out of him I suspect he has them, just not when there's a camera around.

Oh 'tis truly Heaven's kiss
When you find a Love like this...

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Rodger Swan 12/19/1986-1/26/2010 Gone too soon, remembered forever. R.I.P my friend.

You have everything that I have to give; it is the only way that Love truly exists. You and I are each One, and we are both One~E

I cannot be accurately judged by the meat and bone wrapped around me - its features were not my choice.~E

I Love you. Love Me as I Love you, you are Me. you are not me; only here are we we, separate rather than Me, One.~E

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Thank you, Poetman! Oh, he definitely does! Almost every time I kiss him, there was an ESPECIALLY big one when I pulled him close and said "happy anniversary!", and whenever I smile at him (VERY often), he smiles back at me without realizing it. He'd be shocked and appalled if he knew how often he smiled at me like that, lookin' all in love! Don't worry - I extracted a promise of a picture of us together with his biggest smile the next time we see each other. It was supposed to be later that night, but we fell asleep snuggling each other instead. ha.

And thank you, I do agree... he IS scrumptious!! Mmm!!!

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One good turn deserves another.

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Thank you both for your responses! I'm so sorry I haven't replied, I didn't notice the response to my thread.

You have such a happy story, too, tomie - that's really sweet, and I'm very happy to hear it's working out!

And I'm sorry yours didn't, jen.. I know it's hard; I've been in a few that were just utter disasters, but I'd never felt like I do about him. I hope he and I can continue to feel this way, but really, whenever we get to be together, and even just talking over Skype or the phone.. I feel more and more like we were meant to be together and it's the most wonderful, incredible feeling! Thank goodness he feels the same way.

I'll admit that I was VERY nervous about meeting him, as the beginning of my thread will attest to, haha, but it all turned out far better than I'd hoped.

As of now, he's trying to find the money to come visit me again before school starts. And amazing news - he was able to take all online classes this semester!!! He won't be able to stay with me for very long, because of his son, but he'll be able to visit me as often as money allows which is such a huge relief to both of us. I was getting really worried and rather depressed about how little we'd be able to be together this next semester.

After that, I'll be graduating with my BS and I plan to go stay with him for a while in TX while I wait on responses from the grad schools I've applied to. Hopefully, one of the 2 I want to attend in TX will accept me and I'll be able to move down there and he'll follow me and we can officially move in together. I'm really excited!!

My mom's getting a lot more used to the idea and she finally realizes how serious I am about him, and he is about me. She's settling in and looking forward to spending more time with him when she can.

It's been hard, lately... we don't know when we'll see each other again, I'm at my mom's taking care of her post-surgery so we haven't been able to spend time together like we were... etc. But with his online classes, now, and hopefully us getting to see each other soon.. I'm hopeful! I miss him so much!!!

We still have a ways to go before we can be together, but everything seems to be falling into place and I can't help but be optimistic. I can't imagine my life without him anymore and I can't wait to be with him permanently!

Thank you everyone who's read thus far and I'll keep updating as things happen! Hopefully here in a few weeks you'll get another "HE VISITED ME AND IT WAS AMAZING!" post.

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GOOD NEWS!!!!

We've scraped up enough to be able to afford a plane ticket. He's going to be able to come visit me for two glorious weeks!!! I'm super excited! He leaves the day school starts so at least I'll have something to throw myself into when he goes.. hopefully that'll lessen the awfulness (I know it won't but it's important to be optimistic, lol!). I'm REALLY, REALLY excited to see him again! I have just over a week to get on birth control again (lol :P) & clean up my apartment so it's presentable. We're going to buy the plane ticket here in a few minutes and I simply can't wait, I'm so happy we finally got it together and that I really will be seeing him before we have to start our respective semesters.

kun - thank you so very much for all the kind words! The way you've described it is really sweet and helped put everything into perspective for me, too.. we really are incredibly blessed and lucky to have found each other and in this way, too. I'm really very sorry to hear about your marriage, but I hope your friendship will continue to grow and maybe end in romance like mine did! You're right.. he was the last thing in the world I ever expected and look at us now, haha.

As of now I've just gotten home from my mom's after taking care of her for a while.. I came home because I needed to, for me and to get ready for my boyfriend coming to visit as well.

The only downside to him coming like this is that he's very disappointed in himself that he won't be able to buy the ticket on his own. I told him I don't care, that financially I'm in a much better position than he is right now (and I am!) and that we're partners and that it doesn't matter to me as long as I get to see him. It means a lot to me that he's willing to put aside his pride and let me pay, although he wants to pay me back this time since I got the last one as well. I understand and said I'd let him, and we've moved on, but I'm really happy that he's not content to let me handle the financial burden of long distance by myself.. and equally happy that even though it's not ideal for him, he still lets me help when I can afford it and he can't.

I really can't wait to see him, and I'm a little in shock that it's happening again. I know that sounds silly, but I hate to be disappointed and I'm really afraid because I have a lot of feelings riding on seeing him... it's going to be SUCH a relief when we finally get that dang ticket! He said it made him physically ill, like his stomach all upset, thinking about not seeing me even longer. I felt the same. We've been having a bit of a rough patch lately too, just with an unresolved issue we had to work through.. we finally did, it wasn't pretty but we're better off for it, and we're okay now.. but this is going to make things so much easier. I'm sure you guys all understand the strain distance and not knowing when you can see each other again puts on a relationship!

BASICALLY, I'm SUPER HAPPY.

More updates to come, I'm sure!

And just so everyone knows... I'm really, really happy I've made so many of you happy just by sharing. It warms my heart to know that there are people who are so supportive and love happy endings as much as I do. I'm really glad I can share this with all of you and that I've been able to brighten your days with it!!

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