Our Story Continued...

Back this time in 2005 Larry and I were talking up a storm. We talked everyday, many different times per day. I wish I had a nickel for every minute we talked…we would have a nice nest egg! Ha! We talked about everything! What a great friendship we formed.

My brother Tim was living with me at that time. He had rented out the condo he owned and was living in and was looking for a house so he was staying with me. I had told him that Connie had a friend that she wanted to introduce to me. Then I had told him that we had started emailing and talking. The comment I had made to Amy and Sandra about not knowing if I wanted to talk to him since he live in Missouri, I had also told my brother. However, I will never forget standing in my kitchen telling Tim that we were talking ‘a lot’! How do you tell your protective older brother that you were talking (a lot) to a guy 815 mi. away? He didn’t say much. He just listen to me rattle about all that I knew about Larry at that point. I just couldn’t tell him yet that we were going to meet. Ha!

I had seen a picture of him before we talked those 2 minutes back in Feb. He had never seen me. We talked about the fact that he had no idea what I looked like but I had seen a picture of him. He said that seeing a picture of me or not really didn’t matter. He felt that a picture made no difference….we had become friends and that was the foundation of any relationship.

We wanted to meet face to face. However, with the job he had at that time, he was on the road SOOOO much. Plus, when he was at home, we were 815 miles apart. We kept trying to come up with a way to work in meeting. Michael was going to be in Korea the end of March. He tried…and tried and tried to get his layover in Atlanta but try as he may, it would not work out. We talked about the cities close to me that he might be able to fly into. Finally, after days and days of trying to work it out, he finally worked it out to fly from Korea with Charlotte, NC being his layover destination. Ok, there it was…we would meet in Charlotte. Oh my, knowing that we would meet soon was SO exciting! The next question was…How on earth was I going to wait until then?!?!

Oh did my friends and family have opinions! HA HA! More to come….stay tuned!