[JoanieBlon]

Zydeco (Mike) and I met on a pre-Internet "game network" known as TSN (The Sierra Network) in 1992. We used to play dungeons and dragons type games together as well as hearts, spades, backgammon and others.

We were both married at the time ~ unhappily for each of us ~ in long-term marriages. I had been married 22 years and he had been married 16 years. I was living in Suffield Connecticut and he was living in Tampa Florida.

We first met each other "in the REAL" in May of 1994. It was love at first sight for both of us. We already knew that it would work for us, though, as we had been able to "talk" with each other for a long time by computer and by phone.

I gave my 2 weeks notice at my job of 20+ years and filed for divorce. My former husband was OK with the parting and we remained friends. By July 1994 I had moved to Tampa and was living with Mike. When his divorce was final in May 1995, we got married ~ two days after receiving the divorce decree in the mail.

Our ONLY regrets? That we didn't meet one another 20 years earlier!