curiousangel and I met in the newsgroup alt.callahans. We had no romantic interest in each other at the outset. Then the group had a little convention in Nashville - just two dozen people or so. I flew down from Iowa City, thinking at the time that I was doing something absolutely crazy. Michael drove over from Memphis.

We knew by Saturday at dinnertime that we were very much taken with each other. We went home on Sunday and e-mailed each other every day, reams and reams of mail. A month later he came up to visit me in Iowa City, and at the end of his week's visit we knew we were going to get married.