Hesperis - you wrote: "nobody really wants someone who's desperate to be saved from their own company."

Wow! That ought to be sculptured in letters of gold and shown to all would-be romantics, specially the young and inexperienced! Well said!

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OKAY...at the risk of causing this thread to go TOO FAR...

(too many postings, I mean...)

Let me say...

INTERNET ROMANCE IS FRAUGHT WITH PERIL!!!

Case 1: (1996) Man in Alaska freezes lips to monitor screen while attempting to kiss jpeg of internet paramour in sub-zero conditions! Jpeg turns out to be phony anyway, and guy gets frostbitten lips for nothing. Turns out that real woman looks like Maggie Thatcher's dog!

Case 2: (1998) Man in Houston attempts intercourse with jpeg on computer screen, suffers static charge, and is unable to perform for 6 months afterwards! Woman in Hawaii does essentially the same thing and experiences continuous orgams for 14 hours and then spontaneously combusts at her computer terminal.

Case 3: (1999) 260 people in 13 different countries attempt to hold a virtual orgy over the net and precipitate a systems crash that shuts down over 15,000 servers, and interrupts an important liason between Bill Clinton and an unnamed member of the White House staff.

Case 4: (2000) Jilted Internet ex-lover distributes false jpegs purporting to show his ex-flame cavorting with Spaw in a hot tub filled with grape jello. Pictures turn out to be faked...fortunately...they were pretty tasteless. Downright offensive, in fact, specially because of the possums, which were digitally altered.

Moral: DON'T LOOK FOR LOVE ON THE NET!!! LIVE A REAL LOVE LIFE, NOT A VIRTUAL ONE!

Need I go on?

No, I thought not...

- LH