She didn't have anyone for company besides Rosie, the robot maid, and even though the mechanical marvel had a wonderful personality, Jane missed having her children in the house. She found herself walking by their rooms everyday, picturing them in her mind's eye as they had been as kids. She could still imagine Elroy as he had been, studious and rambunctious. She smiled as she thought of the scattered toys and electronic components that used to be strewn from one end of the room to the other. Now there were spaceball trophies on the shelves, along with a lingerie calendar and several posters of nearly nude women on the walls. It wasn't the room of a small boy anymore. It was the room of a young man.
He was no longer the shy, insecure little boy who had gone off to college. He was well over six feet tall, and the hours spent playing on the anti-grav field showed in his physique. She knew that her little boy was probably having the time of his life at the university, and probably with any number of girls from the various sororities or maybe even a female member of the teaching staff. Just the thought of her son pleasuring any of those wanton women sent chills down Jane's spine.
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Another problem lies in having too many choices available on one service. Most online dating services welcome heterosexuals, homosexuals, marriage-minded-folks, as well as those looking to begin an affair, the "alternative lifestyle" people and those simply interested in a pen pal. If more services would specialize in one area, the success rate of matches would increase drastically.
I joined all four Internet dating services within the same week. I told myself it was for the sake of my research paper, yet I am no longer sure that was true. I was extremely careful to make my "ad" as honest as possible. I received just under a thousand responses in two months and met approximately thirty men form those sites. Out of the thousand, I read more than my share of freak mail; however, I was fortunate in only choosing to date the nice and decent men. I made sure the dates were brief, sometimes squeezing in two a day. In the February 15, 1999 issue of Time magazine, in an article entitled "Youve Got Male", the opening sentence is all one needs to read to get the gist of the article. "Its easy to find guys who seem attractive online, but that first real date can disappoint." My first meatspace date was with a man named Chuck. Boy did he sound great on paper. Handsome, successful, etc. We emailed each other like crazy for five days, then moved onto instant messaging and finally the phone. He was funny, witty, charming and bright, on paper. Once we moved to the telephone I started having reservations. He seemed different. I couldnt place it but something was different. Finally we met. Wow...the man at The Monkey Bar was not the man I had just spent an intense five days conversing with. I started to feel negatively towards the online dating world until I remembered that from the time we "met" online to the day we met in meatspace was less than a week. I allowed myself to get carried away with the thrill, and it is a thrill to receive over a thousand letters in two months from potential suitors trying to "court" you. But I wasnt looking out for myself. I wasnt asking the right questions, or ending communication as soon as I realized one was not right for me. I allowed myself to get caught up in a world of fantasy, where words are taken as fact.
There is only one man I am interested in from these services, but I have not met him yet. He calls me at least three times a week, often more; he calls while on business trips, from work and from home. We frequently send emails and instant messages to each other. Out of all of the email I received, his initial letter stood out and I liked him immediately upon reading it. Aside from the fact that we get along extremely well, he gave me all his work and home information: phone numbers, addresses and his companys website within the first few emails. I did not ask for this information, but I was happy to receive it because he owns an extremely successful business and he trusted me with that information. I think he did that because he is not an online dating groupie. He found me on the OneandOnly service where people can view and answer ads without having to be members themselves. It has been over three months from the time he answered my ad to now. We want to meet, and we will meet, but we want to wait a little while longer. It is definitely possible that our meeting could be the end of our "relationship," but I would be surprised at that outcome. Time will tell the story, but he is the same on email, as on instant messaging, as on the phone and this, I have learned, is an important piece of information to have on an online friend. 2ff7e9595c
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