by Kali Campos

Created on: October 26, 2007   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

Imagine if you will being a teenager again, being bored, searching for a game to play online. Lo and behold what pops up on your screen other than an MUD (Multi-User Dungeon for all those non-gamers out there). That's what happened to me when I was 17 I was bored, wanted a game with a bunch of people, wanted to chat and kill things basically (even girls like to kill things in games guys), So I made a character, logged in, played for about 30 minutes, and figured eh this isn't for me so I quit. About a year later, my whole world came crashing down, and where did I turn, back to the game. I logged on created a new character (the old password far gone now) and start talking to people. Apparently the ratio of girls to guys in these types of games is 1:100 so i was getting tells (PMs) from a lot of guys, and thought hey this is cool.

Fast forward to November 2004, I was 19 and joined a clan (guild call it what you will). Now at the time there was no way I would know it, but my future husband was one of the members of that clan. Of course he was with another girl at the time, and I was 'with' another guy (both of whom also play the game, and are quite good friends with both of us still). I started talking to this guy who I knew only by his character name J about all of my life problems, all of my thoughts and dreams. I fell for him, this man who I'd only known a few short months, and only ever talked to on an online game, I honestly thought I was crazy. Eventually we lost touch, I left the clan, it ended up falling apart, as did my loves world, when his girlfriend broke his heart. It left him torn up quite bad and he left the game for a while. This was now February of 2005.

Jump ahead to November 2005 (apparently November is a good month for him and I) I rejoined the clan I had been in, per request of the leader, who adored me (in a friendly way) and I was back with my love. Of course by this time I had moved on, I was with another person, a long distance relationship with someone outside of the game. We were having problems, and who should I end up spilling my soul to but the one I loved, I could feel the feelings return for him. My relationship fell through in December of 2005, and J was there for me. He told me my ex was stupid to let me go, he listened (or rather read) for hours while I sat at my computer, crying and typing.

In January 2006, J and I started talking over Instant messages. It started as simply as 'Hey how's your day' to 'Good morning beautiful' every

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