Love at the click of a mouse

By Joseph Hanis

After losing my wife to cancer, life for a couple of years was hard to digest.  I worked, went to the theater alone living mostly for my two children.  I figured that another love would never cross the pathway to my door!  Then the Internet came into being.  That was 1995.  I got lost in the world of IM's.  I had finally found a place where I could vent and not worry about anyone seeing the tears in my eyes or the misery that I suffered.

I dated a few times and was even semi serious with one but nothing seemed to even come close to what I had previously.

Then, one day someone in the widow and widowers chat room told me of a site that was not advertised on the main screen.  I went into it and found one person in it.  I said Hi, and we chatted for about a minute or two, just long enough to find out that she was from Philadelphia.  Only about an hour away from where I lived in New Jersey.

Then a guy came into the room that she evidently had known and chatted with before.  They began chatting, so I left the room, figuring that the usual had happened and I lost out to someone familiar to her.

Then, an IM comes on.  It was her, saying, WHERE'D YOU GO?  Turns out she was a widow looking for someone near to where she lived to chat with.  We chatted for a long time and I finally called her on the phone.  We eventually met at a local Mall and had lunch.  It felt as if we had known each other for years.

We married September 25th 2010 and are more in love than ever!  I dread to think what life would have been like had she not IM'd me that evening after I foolishly left that obscure chat room that someone suggested I check out.  My happiness was decided by the click of a mouse, as was hers!

I truly believe that out there is someone that is meant for each and every one of us!  Mine was ISABELL55!