You've Got Mail

Draft (02-02-07 (work in progress for a Valentine's Day story)



"You've Got Mail!"
Love In One Million Words

To some of us, chemistry is a state of mind. An intriguing letter or a telephone conversation or a philosophical exchange of ideas through cyberspace could be as intoxicating as live courtship. To the intellectual John Smith and Pocahontas, their epistolic romance was exactly what they had both dreamed of in a relationship.

This is an extraordinary tale of love, romance and passion between two people affectionately known to each other through their cyberspace names as John Smith and Pocahontas.

They speak of romance, passion and undying love. They speak of "death" on the night of their first meeting, which they refer to as their "honeymoon." Sounds like a Shakespearean romantic tragedy? As fans of the Bard, our anonymous lovers refer to their first tryst as a moment of death--an Elizabethan slang for the consummation of love.

They were looking for a meaningful, serious and long lasting relationship and they found it through Love at AOL. They wanted to get to know each other completely on the inside before they met in person so that physical attraction would not influence their relationship. Four months and one million words later in their collection of epistles, John Smith reserves the honeymoon suite at the Westin Hotel. On Valentine's Day, the stage will be set for their honeymoon. The champagne crystals engraved with their names will sound their toasts for their death and their future lives together.

Will the two lovers find complete love on Valentine's Day?

Will their book of love end with: And they live happily ever after?

In the name of Love, they must.

(to be continued)