Aw, Naemanson, it wouldn't be right for anybody to be excluded. I guess Jeri isn't as subtle as Dan Milner was in pulling people along in the thread about Martin Ryan, and the timing of this thread was a bit anticlimactic after Milner's Martin Masterpiece. The man in question isn't particularly subtle, either... Neither were all the hint-droppers above.

I'm the man. Christina is the woman. She's a chiropractor who doesn't believe in "back-cracking" - she thinks that approach is invasive and harmful, so she uses much gentler forms of treatment. She lives at an elevation of 2,100 feet in a mountain community in the Sierra Nevada in California, 40 minutes from me. She lives a life surrounded by lovely people and lovely wildflowers.

I've known her very well as a friend for five years; and I was close friends with her husband Jim, who died just recently. A month before he died, Jim asked me to watch out for Christina and her son - and if something romantic should develop, that would be wonderful.

Well, much to my surprise, it did develop. It wouldn't have happened so soon and so wonderfully without Jim's blessing. The wedding won't be for a while - we're planning on the Spring of 2002.

Wish us luck.

-Joe Offer-