Arvid&Lynn's World

May 4, 97 - First meeting in real life August 19, 1999 - Our wedding

Arvid and I met in February of 1996 over the Internet...but NOT in a chat room...through a mutual friend. I'd been in touch with Ken Hensley (founding member and ex-keyboardist for Uriah Heep) for a few months. Ken directed me to Hani So's original Uriah Heep website where Arvid had done a lot of work transcribing many of Heep's songs. I wrote Arvid a quick note to thank him for the work that he had done and we stayed in touch with an e-mail every day or two. At first we talked about our shared love of music and interest in computers. Neither of us was looking for a relationship at all. The more we talked and learned about each other, the more we realized we had a lot in common and we became very close friends.

We decided we wanted to meet in person and made arrangements for Arvid to visit me in May of 1997. He and a friend drove the 1500 miles from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada to St. Louis, Missouri, USA and spent a couple weeks with my daughter and I. The time we spent together made us realize how much we really did care for each other.

Not a day has gone by that we weren't in contact with each other in one way or another. To date, we have over 4,000 e-mails saved on my computer. Every night, we would have an online chat, talking for 3 to 4 hours each time. We talked on the phone at least once a week. We sent faxes to each other, cards and packages by snail mail. We knew there was more to it than just being friends, we’d fallen deeply in love with each other.

Arvid drove down to visit me in St. Louis several times since that first meeting in May of 1997. My daughter and I visited his family and friends in Regina in November of 1998. We took a Greyhound bus 31 hours to Minot, North Dakota where Arvid, his brother, Kim and a friend, Kelly, picked us up and drove us the rest of the way to Regina.

In April of 1999, we got busy with the paperwork for his K-1 fiance visa and started making plans for a summer wedding. He got the visa August 4th and we got married August 19th here in St. Louis, MO.

We really are each others other half, we are best friends. We share the same thoughts and dreams. We’ll answer each others questions before they are asked, we'll say the same sentence at the same time. We have been there for each other through some very rocky periods of our lives, Arvid was a great support for me when my mother died in November of 1997. We've never known a love as real and complete as the love Arvid and I have for each other. Now...finally...we can spend the rest of our lives together without the heart-wrenching separations we have had to endure the last three and a half years.

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