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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 1840538" data-attributes="member: 1515">I fear this one rambles a bit, too...but I'll share.  And, it's even gaming-related.I started playing D&D when I was 17, near the end of my junior year in high school.  Within a month or two of discovering the game, I joined a group of players, most of whom were in their 20s and early 30s.  One of those players, Tony, was a college student at the nearby university (Wisconsin-Green Bay); Tony and I became fast friends.  (Tony wasn't from Green Bay, but from suburban Chicago -- this becomes important later on.)After I graduated from high school, I went off to college at Wisconsin-Madison, about 2.5 hours away from Green Bay.  But, I still went back to Green Bay every few weeks to visit my parents, and play with my old group.  (I should also point out that, at that point, I was quietly dating Ann, a 32-year-old divorcee, who was one of the other players in that group.  I'll save that story for when someone asks for lust stories. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )At any rate, in January of '84, during my freshman year of college, I came back to Green Bay for the weekend.  At the same time, Tony had two young women, high-school friends of his, come and visit him for the weekend -- Chris and Karen.  They came along with him to our D&D game on Saturday, so I got to meet them.  I thought Chris was cute, but I was dating Ann.  (Apparently, Chris thought I was cute, too, but she was dating her high-school sweetheart, Steve, at the time.)Ann and I lasted about another year, on-and-off, before we broke up.  After Ann, I had another girlfriend (Meg) through most of the rest of my undergraduate time, but that didn't work out, either.  Then, I stayed in Madison for graduate school.Early 1989, I was about to get my Master's, and I landed a job in Chicago.  I contacted Tony -- after graduating from Wisconsin-Green Bay, he went back to Chicago, and had been living with his folks.  We decided to rent an apartment together, and I moved down to Chicago in May of '89.A few weeks later, on the 4th of July, Tony invited me to come to a party at the house of a friend of his.  Turns out this friend was the aforementioned Karen, recently married.  One of the other guests at the party was...Chris.  Hadn't seen her in 5.5 years.   Still cute.  Only, now I was available.  Turns out she was, too.  We spent most of the day flirting.Problem was, she wasn't living in Chicago; she was just visiting.  She was in Florida, living with her dad, and going to school -- she'd dropped out for a few years, but gone back, and was just finishing her degree in teaching.  So, she headed back home.I spent most of that summer and fall bemoaning my lack of a love-life to Tony; he kept saying, "Wait until December; Chris is moving back here."  (Turns out Tony and Karen were in collusion, as Karen was saying much the same thing to Chris.)Chris got her degree just before Christmas, and returned to Chicago.  Karen and her husband Frank hosted a New Year's Eve party that December, and invited Chris and me.  We spent the evening talking, and kissed at midnight.  Things blossomed from there, and we were married in August of '92.  We're still together, still very much in love.  And, I'm the envy of many of my gaming friends -- Chris loves RPGs, too, and plays with me in three different gaming groups.So, thanks to D&D, I meet my soul-mate.  Cool, huh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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