David and I met differently to most. I write poetry and I post it here on Micks site. Most of it is about David some sad some happy, shows the good times and the bad. This story of ours is long so you may need to go grab a cuppa before you start reading. So here goes....

I had been on icq since September in 1999. It was now early December 1999. I was messaged by this guy and we talked for a while he asked if I had a photo of myself I could send to him through icq. I told him I did and tried to send it through it wouldn't go through so he gave me his email address and I sent it. Before it went through to him he said he needed to go as he had to start work he was from the USA and I being in Australia it was night time for me.
I never thought any more of it then a few days later I received an email I recognised the email I thought it was the guy I had sent my photo too...it was and it wasn't ...the email said "Thanks for the photo but I don't think I was spose to get it some how told me his name was David and that he lived in the UK and he hoped he would hear from me again.
I emailed him back quickly as I was on my way to work...I thought this guy was having me on and that by chance maybe he had been drunk when were chatting on icq and had forgotten...so anyway I sent him an email with a favourites list quiz attached so he could get to know me better.
I told him I was married but in a bad relationship and that I was planning to leave my husband I told David through our emails some of my deepest secrets that I had not shared with anyone else at all. In early January I told David things were getting bad and I needed to find some way to get out and soon I couldn't stand being with my husband any more...David offered to send me the money I needed to leave my husband, I said no if I was to do it, it was something I needed to do on my own.
I scouted around at getting a loan through a finance company but it was going to take at least a month for the money to come through so then I went to my local back told them I wanted to get a loan that I could take out on my own and that way my husband wouldn't know about it the loan was a success and within a week I had the amount specified in my account. I then told my husband I was leaving him I was sick of the verbal abuse and other abuse I won't mention and he had been abusing my oldest son that wasn't his.
The days that followed I told David I had got the loan but then one day I came home from work and my husband had put a bar on the phone so I could not access the internet. I had also by this stage resigned from my job. I finished up there on the 20th of January and then I went down to Melbourne to look for a house the thing I found was though its not that easy to find a house you have to give references etc. I had none in my name alone only in my husbands name. I returned home. I ended up finally finding a house and moving in on the 1st of February 2000. Needless to say the first thing I did was contact David...I told him what had happened we swapped addresses and phone numbers in fear that we may lose touch again. Valentines day was coming up so I went to the florist and sent David a single red rose I also 10 days before hand sent him a card for every day the last one saying happy valentines day he was ecstatic when he received his rose the amount of thankyou's in the email was unbelievable. He said no one had ever done anything like that for him before.
Towards the end of February though his emails got less and less he said he had come down with the flu and couldn't shake it I told him to go to the doctor which he did.
I didn't hear from him for about 2 weeks I thought I had said or done something to upset him he finally wrote back and told me his news.
The doctor had run tests only to find David had acute myeloid leukaemia, I cried for ages my poor man I had finally found him after all these years and now I could lose him. He had said the doctors weren't giving him too much info on it so I began searching on the internet for info on it and when I found it I sent it to him he was relieved to say the least at least now he said he had more of an idea of what this disease was about.
We were suppose to meet in July in his summer, but because of his illness he couldn't come here now. I offered to go there to meet him he said I was very kind for offering but he didn't want me seeing him so ill as he had always been such a strong capable man. In May David went in for three weeks on intense chemo treatment you see David has a rare blood group the only other member of his family that has the same blood group is his father and he had long passed away.
I knew Davids birthday was in July so I sent him over a present a koala a t-shirt and some book marks and some photos of myself.
David had said to me that he wanted to come here and meet me still so we arranged he would come here at Christmas 2000 so we could meet and start planning our future together.
In November torrential rains hit the UK and David had to be evacuated, he had three foot of water through his house. Then when he went for chemo they discovered a lump on his back lucky it was benign. Although this in turn put us off from meeting yet again as it was almost Christmas and David could not sit comfortably for long periods. We still email each other every day and little by little his blood is getting better. He has even asked me to marry him and he wants us to have a family together as he has never been fortunate to have children of his own I hope to be able to make this a reality for him one day soon...Love you David.

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