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About
the Authors
Wanna
know how this site started? It's a long, long story...
 It
all started in the Spring of 1999. I was getting back into swing
of dating again after a long term relationship ended, but not
having too much luck with "the bar scene." Don't get
me wrong, I had lots of fun and met lots of people... I'm not
a social recluse or a hideously ugly troll, just a normal girl
who wasn't meeting anyone who had anything in common with me.
My best friend Jen, who had recently moved to the West Coast,
encouraged me to try internet personals. She had met some cool
friends that way, and swore it wasn't as creepy as it the media
would have you believe.
I
gave it a shot.
Well,
I did meet cool friends, like Jonn, Ralph and Kevin, but also
got responses from some of the freakiest creeps this side
of the Jerry Springer Show! I couldn't keep such gems to myself,
so I forwarded them to Jen, my sister Cindy, and my new e-pals.
We had a blast reading between the lines and making absurd
comments on these people's emails. It wasn't all jokes and
games. I met a few folks from the internet. While Jonn and
I hit it off great as friends, there was just no romantic
spark, so my quest continued...
Then
in September, when I had all but given up hope and was running
the ads more for amusement than romance, this fella named
Fritz e-mailed me. He totally knocked my socks off. We had
so much fun e-mailing each other we decided to meet. The rest,
as they say, is history. We're now one of those cute mushy
couples you see gazing starry-eyed at each other. We've been
together since Fall 1999 and were married in November of 2001.
I know... EWWWW! The last thing you were expecting is that
I'd actually meet a cool guy and we'd fall for each other
and live happily ever after, eh? Well, sometimes good things
happen to bad people.
This
was never intended to be a website. The ads I placed were
real. I really was looking for that special someone. And I
found him. But whenever I'd tell someone about the freaks
who wrote me, and even the not-so-freaky guys who were just
glaringly bad matches, they'd tell me, "You should write
a book about this" or "You should start a website."
Being a web developer, that was the route I took.
Since
it's official launch in February of 2000, Way Too Personal
has won many website awards, including Yahoo Picks of the
Month and Yahoo Picks of the Year, a MacWorld Best of the
Web award, and my all-time favorite, a MountainDew.com award.
And
it hasn't all been just bitchy fun. The message
boards for the site has spawned many long-lasting friendships,
several relationships, and a couple weddings, not to mention
the hundreds who got great advice from folks who've been there,
done that. Not bad for something that was never supposed to
be published, huh?
Lorina,
webmaster of Way Too Personal
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