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Leslie Poston · 1 year ago

Every time I see your avatars I get all weepy. I am so HAPPY for you both :)

Linda Merrill from ::Surroundi · 1 year ago

Wow - when I met you both last week, I never thought you had only just met!!! What a fun, and romantic, story!

Maggie · 1 year ago

Social media introduced me to my husband seven years ago. I'm infinitely excited for you two. :)

Neil · 1 year ago

Wow, what a beautiful story. I'm not going to badmouth Twitter ever again. There is some point to it after all!

Kath · 1 year ago

Such a beautiful post!

Am truly happy for both of you.

And yay for Twitter!

Chris Rohde · 1 year ago

Hey man,

Twitter has done wonders for me too (got me into a programming job for which I was woefully underqualified), and from the sounds of your writing, it did roughly the same for you. ;)

That is absolutely outstanding, and I am very happy for you both.

David K. · 1 year ago

Perhaps you can help me with something. Does Meg actually exist below the shoulders? I suspect she does, since we now know she was able to get on a plane. However, her Flickr pics don't allow me to prove is scientifically.

Seriously...congrats! She's a catch of the highest order. :)

Meg · 1 year ago

There are tons of them on Facebook.:P

skyle · 1 year ago

Hi Gradon!

Thank you for sharing this heartwarming story! I had to leave a comment, not a DM to tell you I'm impressed- a gentleman you are. I'm now feeling all warm and glowy inside on a chilly October evening. You are adorable together and I am so happy you were brought together via twitter!

Cheers!

Jann · 1 year ago

What a fabulous, wonderful story. I'm about to "meet" the love of my life, whom I also met through a social networking site (our story is yours just change the names and locations). We've been getting to know each other for eight months now and I cannot wait! Reading your and Meg's story just makes me so happy! For the both of you and for the both of us.

Yes Virginia, there are happy endings in cyberspace romances!

Belinda · 1 year ago

I've been following Meg for a little while on her blog then on Twitter and saw her tweets to you which of course made me follow along in your blossoming romance.

Don't sell your words short either that was lovely post you wrote.

I too met my lovely Husband who started out as just a very good friend on Excite Chat back in 1999. He lived in Los Angeles and I live here in Vancouver. Two years later we meet, fell in love did the long distance thing for a couple of years and we got married in Jan of 2003. He works in TV I work in Banking so we would never have crossed either except for these here fair Interwebs.

Best of luck to you both!

@lizwebpage · 1 year ago

Dudes, I'm SO THRILLED for you. Me and hubby met on the internet back in 1994 before there was a dot-com, me in Florida, he in Boston. Sometimes magic just *happens* and you find the best friend you didn't know you were missing but you were...just so missing! Amazing...HURRAY! :)

Matt · 1 year ago

Colon. Dash. Capital D.

Jonathan Yarmis · 1 year ago

You are such a sap!!! And making it so hard for the rest of us guys!!!!!!!!

OK..OK...I'm so happy for you two.

Erin , @queenofspain · 1 year ago

I'm sorry, I can't comment. I'm too busy blowing my nose after sobbing over this post.

So happy for you both.

Lucretia Pruitt · 1 year ago

I've been so happy for both of you since I found out.
I've told Meg for as long as I've known her (met her on twitter, as a matter of fact!) that she deserved and would find an amazing guy that would appreciate how incredible she is... I'm thrilled that it's you and that you guys found each other.

This post just makes me all squishy and girly! But more than that? It just confirms my belief that yeah, my Twitter friends are real friends and it makes sense when we feel like we've known each other for ages the first time we "meet" in person.

Yay!!

Heather · 1 year ago

Beautiful story - thank you for sharing the happy!

I met my perfect match through a social networking site, and yes, in the 'real world' our lives would never have crossed paths either. Thank heavens for the internet!

Elisabeth aka @podcastmama · 1 year ago

It couldn't happen to two nicer people. I am grateful for your generosity as you two share your happiness, your adventures, and your unfolding romance with all the rest of us.

Congratulations on having found one another.

Dayngr · 1 year ago

Now that you've found her you'll have to be good to her or those of us in the twitter mafia will have to make a visit out there.

Seriously though, wishing you all the best for years to come. This is just the beginning. =)

Tracy Lee Carroll · 1 year ago

AWESOME! That's exactly how my husband and I met...14 years ago...and we are still very happily married! :)

Good for you! Two of my most favourite Tweeters!

warrenss · 1 year ago

What a great story!! Glad to see you guys so happy...and to think our little Twitter had something to do with it. Keep smiling, you deserve it!

Belinda · 1 year ago

Wait--now I have to name a tom turkey "Gradon?" Better wait 'til a little closer to Thanksgiving, to see who's going to make the cut and carry on.

Congratulations--you've done well.

Deirdre Saoirse Moen · 1 year ago

You two are so cute! I'm glad you found each other.

oddthomas (Lynn) · 1 year ago

VERY happy for the both of you... (I am a follower of both of your blogs)
I met my partner of nearly 10 years through the magic of the internet. I think it gave us an opportunity to get to know each other a little better than maybe we would have through the 'normal' social ways. I think you become more sensitive to each other. You don't have the usual visual aides during communicating and getting to know someone. It breaks down the whole getting to know someone down to very simple terms without a lot of other triggers, assumptions, and all that other nonsense getting in the way.
I wish you both much happiness and many blessings!

Alison · 1 year ago

Too cute!!! I'd cry too if someone wrote that about me. Yay Twitter love!

Laura "Pistachio" Fitton · 1 year ago

So many words and thoughts, so I will stick to this:


:-)

Alicia Staley (@Stales) · 1 year ago

Okay, I'm going through the kleenex, what a beuatiful story. All the best to you both. YOU two ROCK!

@rebeccaforever · 1 year ago

so very sweet :)

Jim Storer · 1 year ago

Congrats on finding one another and have fun! Great story.

Jim | @jstorerj

Kerri Anne · 1 year ago

As someone who met my love (who is now my husband) online, through one comment left on his website, and then myriad emails and phone calls and finally so many months later, a face to face meet, I totally understand how amazing it is, the idea of finding someone online you wouldn't have been able to before. It really is amazing.

So thrilled for you both.

jenny, bloggess · 1 year ago

Beatiful.

jenny, bloggess · 1 year ago

That last comment should have had a U in it. "Beautiful". I blame the typo on the adorableness of that picture.

ilinap · 1 year ago

Now THAT is the power of social media. And to think ym husband thinks all I do is talk to imaginary friends! Wonderful story.

phil campbell · 1 year ago

just great - congrats, everyone should be happy. :)

Charise Perkett Glasson · 1 year ago

Your story is so touching... I, as many have, read your tweets and could read between the lines and the fondness you both had for one another. You both are so fortunate to have found each other as unconventional or conventional one may look upon it as. In life we give and receive may gifts but to receive a gift of the heart is the purest and most treasured gifts of all. Take nothing for granted. Wishing you both the best.

Cheers,
Charise

nwjerseyliz · 1 year ago

It's going to be a challenge to move this forward but I have no doubt you two will accomplish whatever you set your minds & hearts on.

I have been active on a specific message board for 8 years now and I watched along with all of the regulars when two people posted there fell in love, met & eventually got married & had two kids and originally, she was in Ohio and he lived in Australia!

Funny how the Internet is accused of isolating people and yet it introduces two people who would never have otherwise have met. Beautiful!

tNb · 1 year ago

Ended up here via Meg's blog and, as I sit in front of my laptop over 8,000 km from home, I'm quietly smiling to myself. Your story resonates - if it weren't for our blogs (me in Vancouver, he an ex-pat in Portugal) our paths would never have crossed. I used to be cynical about social media, but I'm forever grateful. I don't know either of you, but I hope you'll find a way to merge your lives. We're still merging and we're riddled with difficult choices, but a little faith in each other goes a long way ... Congrats to you both. :-)

Chris (in Virginia) · 1 year ago

Congratulations - we've loved her for years and I'm so very, very happy to see you two making each other so happy.
It's a small world after all.
Chris (in Virginia)

Dave · 1 year ago

Hey, you want to know one of the most OVERUSED WORDS in today's society?

Amazing.

Yup. Every bloody thing is amazing. I love it wieh pinheaded teenage girls pronounce it that special way they have: "Aw-maaaay-zeen."

Not counting this post, the word "amazing" appears on this particular page no fewer than a half-dozen times.

Amazing.

As for you and Meg...Whatever. You're precious. A little gushy, but definitely precious. Maybe you two can pass notes in homeroom or something.

That would be amazing.

Nathan Burke · 1 year ago

Wow, Dave. That comment was amazing.

Meg · 1 year ago

It's amazing the things people care about. :)

Love you, babe.:)

Zena Weist · 1 year ago

catching up on the post, given our chat last week. Now, I remember the tweets about your heart breaking when she was leaving on her visit. I just missed that it was Meg!

So happy for both of you! It's wonderful to know two incredible people - each whose eyes make a room warm up upon entering because their soul-filled joy glistens through - connect as you have! Thanks so much for sharing!

Rob · 6 months ago

So, there *is* such a thing as being twitterpated!

facebook-569209756 · 2 months ago

Skype is my favorite for that :)
I have met 2 girls far from me with it and traveled thousands miles to see them...