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We're Bill, Michele and Elizabeth Kerby, and we're glad you came!
Our little family began when we were introduced on internet chat.��Here is our story, told from Michele's point of view:
I was an only child.��My parents were older and in poor health so I continued living with them into adulthood.��I dated but I was seldom serious about the guy; each seemed less suitable than the last.��After my parents passed away my co-workers urged me to get a computer so I would have a kind of social life on the internet.��By this time I was nearly ready to give up dating.��At 36 years of age I thought I would be alone forever.��But on an impulse I purchased an inexpensive used Dell computer and soon was spending my evenings and days off on internet chat.
On the evening after Thanksgiving an aquaintance named Tophat asked me how I was feeling.��I wrote that I was very lonely.��He had a girlfriend, he said, but he knew a really great guy who was lonely too.��His name was Dozer.��Would I like to meet him?�I hesitated for a moment.��I'd heard all the stories about terrible things happening to women who fell in love with men they knew only through the internet.��That's true, I thought, but what do I have to lose?�So I said yes, introduce us.��So he did.
Dozer and I hit it off immediately.��Every day we sent each other e-mail.��We spent hours talking on the computer and over the phone.��That part was a little expensive because he lived in Nevada, Texas and I in Oklahoma City.��I felt as though I had known Bill (his real name) all my life.��It seemed so strange.��Could this be the right one?�He decided to take some vacation time to come up to Oklahoma City and visit me.
As the time grew closer I started becoming nervous.��I had to laugh at myself.��Here was the old lady being tittery over meeting a man!�Finally the evening came.��I met him at the motel where he was staying and we went out to dinner.
Later he told me that the first moment he saw me he knew I was the one for him.��Being the always-cautious one it took me a little longer; by the third day I knew it was right.��This was the man I loved and would love forever.��When he returned to Texas I simply left my life behind me and went with him.��Within a month we were married.��It was the first time I've ever done anything in haste but it was the smartest thing I've ever done.��It just keeps getting better and better!
Last February 14 we were blessed with Elizabeth Ann.��She brings us endless joy.��God has been so very good to us!�I made her a page for her very own; you can see her picture
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