A God sent miracle

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The story below happened in South Africa in1999 and was written in 2000.This story won the competition and Gail and myself a return trip to Paris. Well it is now 2012 and we are still very happilly married living here in wonderful New Zealand and still very much in love with one another. (Sorry about the colour I copy pasted it from a saved web page)

Eric and Gail Barr

A God sent miracle"

My name is Eric. I do believe we have the success story of the year. In March I came across your web page by pure coincidence. I was browsing without any intention when I came upon your page. I filled in the profile page of myself and my ideal partner. I submitted it just as I was called away on other business. I had forgotten it completely.

About three weeks later I received this anonymous email through the DatingClub. It turned out Gail had only just received Internet on her computer and was also just browsing. It took me about three day to reply as I was very sceptical. I was fifty four years of age and had been living on my own for five years. The people I had met were either divorcees with a tremendous amount of baggage or widows who had not been able to let go of their late husbands. I myself had become suspicious of everyone's intentions.

I replied anyway giving a brief description of myself not expecting to hear anymore. Lo and behold I received a reply a day later. This carried on with an email every couple of days. We then decided to exchange photographs. I am terribly camera shy to a point of neurosis. I received Gail`s and was completely shocked. The picture I saw was a replica of the mental picture I had when filling in the profile of my perfect partner. This uncanny similarities grew as we corresponded with each other with regard to our likes and dislikes. The list just grew and grew. One comes to mind. I remember saying that I dislike tomato soup. The answer I received was it was also one of her dislikes. These emails intensified to three a day. Not just short ones but many as much as three pages long.

The day came when it was time to meet each other face to face. I lived in Cape Town and Gail in George. I travelled up by Inter City bus sweating blood not knowing what to expect. If she would like me or me her.

Gail met me at the bus station. The moment we set eyes on each other everything just clicked together. Within twelve hours I had proposed to her and she had accepted. We were married on the 25th June 1999. I have since moved to George where we stay very happily. The whole episode was a God sent miracle with a lot of help from the DatingClub. We would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Gail and Eric

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