Sam has closed his piano and gone to bed ... now we can talk about the real stuff of life ... love, liberty and games such as Janus, Capablanca Random, Embassy Chess & the odd mention of other 10x8 variants is welcome too
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Redsales.. to answer your question.. Yes.. dano and I met in Oct of 2000.. I was just getting my divorce papers and was a bit bitter on the male population.. we met at IYT.. and through our chats I realized that men weren't all abusive and not trustworthy.. Dano came to Wyoming from Germany on May 22nd and had to return on June 7th.. to wrap some personal stuff up.. He was hoping to come back permanently. He mentioned it several times waiting for me to give him the go ahead.. but, I held off due to enjoying my freedom too much.. I wasn't really ready back then to make such a big committment.. That is also when I started to realize that different countries come with different cultures and upbringing.. what is possessive and obcessive over here in the states isn't viewed as such else where.. and vise versa.. some things American men are noted for are not necessarily happening in other parts of the world..
I ended up completely breaking up the relationship after I had started into college fulltime.. I didn't have the time to be online permanently as he had expected for me.. that was around Sept of 2002..