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Our
story is far from normal, though in say 5-10 years it may be considered the norm. As you
hopefully gathered from the Title of our page we are the Young's, Aaron (That's me),
and my beautiful wife Debra.
We met back in November 1997, on the net, in an IRC chat room to be more precise. My
handle is Gambit and Debra's is Weeboll, at first we were just friends and we got to know
eachother over the coming months.
Finally we had the courage to admit we had deeper feelings for eachother and we decided we
should meet... This would be easier said than done...
Debra was staying in Kentucky, USA, whilst I was born, raised and resident in the United
Kingdom, in England, a mere 4000 odd miles across the Atlantic!
Suficit to say I bought a plane ticket and flew out to see the woman I had fallen in love
with on August 14th 1998, the day after my 21st birthday.
In heinsight, I am suprised at how calm I was with the whole situation, (Flying to a
foriegn country to which I had never been before, meeting a woman I had not at this point
talked to in person, alone), I wasn't afraid for one second, all the time I was
anxious to meet Debra.
It was a long, 9 hour flight on the United Airlines plane, I had watched a few in-flight
movies and tried in vain to get some sleep.
When I stepped off the plane I was looking all around me, yet I couldn't seem to focus on
anything, wasn't able to see properly, then, I heard the most wonderful voice, one which I
had grown very familiar with during lengthy, and costly, telephone conversations.
There she was, as beautiful as I had imagined and she was calling my name, my heart
skipped and I just fumbled a smile and walked over to her for the first of many hugs and
kisses...
Our meeting was like a consumation of our love, we definitley clicked and we knew it was
the real thing.. I stayed with Debra in Henderson, Kentucky and we spent all our time
talking about; how we met, who else we knew, how we felt for eachother and how right it
felt..
One week later, on August 21st 1998 at 3:30pm we got married in the Court House in
Henderson, Kentucky. We wanted to be together for the rest of our lives and if possible..
beyond.
This was the point at which things became less than easy on either of us.. In order
for us to be together, one of us had to immigrate to the other country.. we had
talked at length about this and because Debra had children here who were at a point in
their lives when they needed her to be around and the fact she had some deep roots here in
the USA, we decided I would immigrate here to America.
We went to the nearest Immigration office to find out what we needed to do and found we
had to fill in a pile of paper work and pay a substantial amount of money.. We had neither
the funds or the time to fill in the paper work before I had to return to the UK, I would
of and now, in heinsight wish I had, stayed here and filed the paperwork, but I had
financial responsibilities and a job back in the UK, and to leave either would have meant
hardship for family and friends, something I was not prepared to let happen. So on the
grave day of September 3rd 1998, I returned to the UK, my heart aching for the love I had
to leave behind.
I returned here to Minnesota on November 3rd 1998 and couldn't wait to hold my wife whom I
had missed so much it hurt, we have now spent the last 2 months gaining the funds and
filling in the paperwork and taking the physical, and we are waiting to finally file.
Update!!!! - 1/21/99
Today we went to the INS, (Immigration and Naturalization Service), in St.Paul
and filed all our paperwork, we were there for about 4.5 hours!, but we got everything
done and now I have a work permit and am getting my SSN tommorrow!!!
The weight lifted from our shoulders today was incredible.
N.B. The stress we have and are experiencing is immense and in some ways, inhumane,
but we have and will continue to percivere in the name of true love.
- Aaron Young.
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