From: Ellen K. 

This is wonderful news.   Turnaround indeed.   I am really thrilled for
you.    :)

On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:04:04 -0500, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote in message :

>Holding out?  Yup, that's why a bit "scarce" recently.
>
>Sordid story....
>
>We met via Yahoo!, in the online dating section.  I had been in there about
>6 weeks, then saw her "ad", very short, funny, cryptic. 
Something like:
>
>"I'm looking for an adult companion who knows what 'shaken not stirred
>means, when watching a James Bond Movie with my 14 year old son.  Also a
>Titans fan, wears my Wycheck jersey during every game.  Oh, and it would
>help if you knew who Jimmy Buffett was...LOL..."
>
>My reply was:
>
>Would it help if I KNOW Jimmy Buffett?
>
>She replied via Yahoo! IM about a day or two later, we chatted online for
>several hours.  (This was a Friday night).  We went to lunch the next
>Wednesday, and have been with each other every day except maybe 3 or 4 since
>then.
>
>This was in Mid November.  Neat lady, moved in in December over Christmas at
>her request.  At that time, we both realized that this was going to be a
>very long term relationship.  The 'kids' great, as well (she calls him "the
>kid", so I do as well..LOL).  He's in 9th grade, carried 3 HS credits in
>with him from Middle School, has  3.78 GPA so far this year with NO effort
>at all, and is taking 4 honors classes next year to be challenged again.
>Has a great singing voice (classically trained), is in 2 different choral
>groups (in school sings with the senior choir as a freshman, and in a
>commercial choral group with full paid scholarship, because they want his
>voice in the group).  Plays a wicked 1st base as well.  Many evenings are
>now spent at Recreation league baseball (narrowly missed the HS team this
>year).
>
>Time flies when we're together, never enough time to do what we want to.
>
>Life is turning around, finally....

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