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Originally Posted by emily
.. now it's kinda hard to explain to vanilla friends how i met Him lol..  |
Sarah and I have that same issue. So for vanillas we formed a story that is very close to the real thing, so that stretching the truth is kept to a minimum. Though it leaves out a lot of important details, the essences of the real story is that we met through the SIN discussion board, where we both posted on a more or less regular basis, and realized that both were somewhat aligned with one another on issues of politics (because we were out of line with most other posters - LOL). We became aware that we lived so close to one another when someone from England posted a question asking who lived near a certain city that they had a question about. Things proceeded slowly from that point. The story that we use for vanillas is that we both met on a political discussion board hosted by a small college (discussion board-true, political & small college, not), and that we were apart from most others in our beliefs (true, but we make this a bigger issue than it really was on SIN). All the rest is the same, i.e. what actually happened. And it works very well, and sometimes leads to some very interesting discussions about meeting, dating, and relationships in the online world. (Though, to be sure, neither of us was trying to meet folks or date - we were just members of the discussion board. But as the relationship progressed, we communicated a great deal through it).
That's our story, and we're sticking with it.
