 "In June of 1996, Wendy Jeppson came quietly into my life. I'd posted a rambling little bio on Cyberfriends the year before and forgotten about it. Wendy ran across it and wrote me a little message asking, among other things, my shoe size. We emailed back and forth and looked over each other's homepages. But soon our messages began to get deep and personal. I'd never met a woman who was willing to discuss an issue philosophically or consider an idea which had upsetting implications. At the tender age of 19, Wendy had already chosen to deal with the complexity and uncertainty of real life.Yet I'd never met the girl. Finally we saw each other on August 16th, 1996. But before I met her I knew I loved her and wanted to marry her. Thus we loved before first sight. It's been a chore to break the news of our relationship to our families since none of them had seen it happening and we'd only barely met. They've mostly come around though and have given us their blessing, as strange as our relationship must seem to them. Wendy is a miracle. That a sweet, young, bright girl would choose to trust and love someone with my past and hardness and skepticism isn't something I understand. Yet it's real, so humbly I accept the challenge to love her in return." Philip
Dec. 1996 |
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