You see I sit here writing this from my babys side and from N.C., USA as of this date July 6th 2002.
I wonder,

How on earth did I find myself here writing this, a guy from Belfast, Ireland

Well for a start, I met someone online, in a room called Beseen of all places.
A girl, a country girl.
Lets move back a little, a little bit to how I got to this room in the first place.

I became Da Angel, because my first love was a girl called Buffy.

She was the one, the one I thought I was in true love with.
Time and experience taught me how inexpensive, taught, and compelling love was.
She ditched me(thus the true and compelling part).
So in need I looked, for solace for someone to love
Indeed I went online, and straight to chat
here I did land, a place for the carnal pleasure of the insane
New and alone I tread the boards; till....
A santa came...

Her Name was Cringle

Well that was way back in the early part of 2001 and by May 2001, we had become good friends
One day I went into chat, and there flirting with my friend was a dude named Uncle Sinsiter
She seemed not to twart his attention...I got Jealous...
Now why, I asked myself, why am I jealous...why do I want to string this MFing sheep shaging pansy, lamer, bubble gum on my shoe bit of s**t up?
Only one thing for it............I flooded chat.....with I love you Cringle on it.
Now anyone who is a regular in chat, knows I don't multi post..... so the situation must have hit a nerve.

So with this, she said.....I love you back So around mid June 2001, she downloaded MSN Instant messanger. Well I was on holiday from work for two weeks, and 24/7 we talked.
We talked about many things, the things that make people....like life goals, past experiences, jobs, loves lost and won. At the end of the two weeks, I asked her to marry me. She said yes.

We shared my ring, my ® and started to make plans.

Now as regulars at beseen, know this happens all to often, and more than 99.9% of the time nothing comes of it. We took quite a bit of abuse from lamers over this. Smiles, even got to the point where people though we were one and the same person. RoTfL. To this day, July 23, 2002, we have always and will continue work as a team. A team of two equals. There is no abuse, distance or obstacle that can defeat us, as a team we stand strong. The diffculties we have faced have been many and at times very daunting. To come as far as we have come, from our humble, and at times tenous start in a chat room, has required great emotional fortitude, endurance and a total belief in each other. If you had enquired of me before I met Cringle if I had these qualties inherent in myself, I would have said nay. However we are a team, and lend strength to each other.

Now for some of the things that we have kept secret(Not All the things though). Around August of 2002, an ex of Cringle got jealous and wanted to be with her again. She turned him down. This lead to her phone line being cut several times, her real mail, being interferred with, and of course threats. He knew, that she had met someone online and was furious. This she told me. Now this would put most people of....lol...not me. Then one day, as per the normal time, I rang her from work, on my mobile, to inquire why she had not called that day. Her house had been broken into and trashed, her computer and car stolen.
I remember with fear as she recounted what had transpired, listened to her tears, and wiped my own with trembling fingers. We resloved, to stay together, even if only by phone. It's a long way from Ireland to the USA, and both of us initally feared the other would give up. While Cringle was not online, he came to bessen chat, using the stolen pc, and tried to belittle her background and spread untruths. So I crashed his lamer ass. On the phone later that night, I recived a call, from the ex, threating me. My home and mobile numbers granished from information on the stolen PC. Promises of welcome parties for me when I landed in N.C. where made. LMAO....I told him where to stick his threats.

By the end of August, a restraint order had been placed, a new PC ordered and delivered, other more secure accommodation for Cringle aquired and airplane tickets ordered. As I mentioned as a team we are unbeatable.

In January of 2002 I traveled to London, then to Maryland and from there on to N.C. That last night at home, was an emotional one. Cringle and I stayed up all night with a dear friend of ours PIM. For me, I had to leave my country, my job, my family, my home knowing that there was a high probability that I would see none again, for years, perhaps never. In the case of my dog, whom I rescued as a pup that was to be never. I never told anyone that I would not be returning, that I intended to marry someone I had met in a chat room. I gathered up what personal mementos I could fit into a suitcase, and travel bag, Kissed my baby on the phone one last time from Ireland, and commenced my journey to her awaiting arms.

For those that want to read about my love for my wife, and how much she means to me, they need only visit My Cringle® Page.

It has taken us 6 months to get through the paper work and now, today we marry. In our hearts we have always been as one and we will never be seperated. NOT NOW and NOT EVER. We are the first people of bessen chat, that I know of, that have married. A song I remember singing to her before I left my home, and this day of all days, it comes to mind it is no longer....