Anne lives in Seattle, and she was a college student when she met Mark, who now is her husband.
“Moving from my home town, where I had all my friends, to Seattle, where I wanted to study, has been one of the loneliest experiences in my life”, she says. “I was working part-time in a coffee shop to pay for my rent and expenses, but money was always a little tight.
So I hadn’t the opportunity to go out that much, and therefore I had difficulty to meet new friends and maybe even a lover.
It felt so excruciating that at some point I thought of giving up my dreams to go back home, and perhaps find a full time job there.
But one day, while I was reading my usual newspaper, I found an ad for a phone dating free chatline. I was instantly curious!
I had nothing to lose since the service wasn’t going to cost me money, so that evening I didn’t think about it twice, and I dialed the number.
I confess that the first guy with whom I decided to connect was pretty boring. He was way older than me, and he started immediately to talk blatantly dirty. It was clear that he was looking for nothing more than kinky phone sex.
I was already giving up on the whole thing when, out of frustration, I dialed the toll free number again.
This time I noticed the personal message of a 20-something guy from Seattle, who loved cooking and reading thriller books just like me.
I decided to call him. We had a really nice conversation and we decided to start our own book club.
I would decide a book we would both read, then we would make an appointment on the phone chat line to talk about it.
Needless to say, our tiny book club has been successful and lasted a few months, until we finally decided to meet in real life.
The rest is history: we dated for a while and we eventually decided to tie the knot, to spend our whole lives together.”
