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Teary eyes at work,
Oh so manly man, I am.
Thank you, dearest Meg. :)
I am clapping my hands after reading your post! Having read your blog for several months, I’m hardly surprised that you’ve found someone who understands how fabulous you are. Huzzah! The long-distance thing resonates but after a few months of e-mails, phone calls, traveling and trying out life in Portugal (and seriously considering leaving Vancouver in my past) … anything is possible with a little faith in ourselves. I don’t even know but but I’m VERY happy for you! :-)
Meg (and Gradon), your story is so wonderful and lovely and touching. Thank you so much for sharing it with us! Makes me feel special to “know” you!
Love this openness and frank gushing. There is a good reason we like stories like this (girl-boy meet, seems like odds stacked against, overcome, and it’s wonderful), because it gives people hope.
Hope is good.
(oops, typo! … don’t even know you, but …) sheesh
Whoa!
I knew from the very first time I read one of your posts (thanks Gruen for pointing me in Meg’s direction) that you were special. You have a way with words like none other and I could tell your heart was as big as it gets. And over time I would read and read and read (and sometimes comment) and always say a little prayer that you would find someone as wonderful as you are that would recognize how lucky they would be to have you in their lives.
Your love lists gave you away. And you found true love in the process.
And yeah. He’s totally hot! But then again, so are you!
*Wicked sweet!! and you give inspiration to all those other girls out there feeling boy-impaired …
*English to Bostonese translation of “how romantic!” :-)
Oooh! You sound so happy!
I happen to think the internet is a wonderful place to meet someone. Certainly worked for me!
All the best to you…
Meg, I am just so endlessly thrilled for you. Truly, and I wish you and Gradon all the best. Chris and I began online, too, on his website, through one comment, and we had to live across the country from one another for far too many months. It was all so completely worth it. Which, of course you already know.
I am so happy for you! Yay for men that love us for who we are and not just for what we look like!
I have a pretty damn good vocabulary and all I got right now is, “wow!” If I could be happier for another human, I’m not sure how!
A true love story! Good luck you two! ;-)
Jim | @jstorerj
Yea! A Twitter love story!
How wonderful.
That’s the only phrase I could use to describe it. After every sentence I read, I thought “How wonderful.”
My fiance and I met online as well, through the magic of blogging, and you completely nailed the feelings that were nagging from the very beginning of our relationship.
It is an intense feeling, that split second before meeting someone face to face. So many emotions. “Should I just turn around? I can go home and we can pretend that this never happened because what if he thinks all of the worst things I think about myself and gives those as reasons he won’t be with me? Good, so I’m leaving. Then I won’t have to deal with the humiliation. Yep. I’m leaving. Not really because there he is and is he smiling? And saying things with his mouth? Because I cannot breathe.” But the feeling of knowing that this person accepts you completely and fully and truly completely outweighs the risk that he won’t. And at least you’ll know either way.
And now you do.
I am so happy for you, as I’m sure all of your readers are.
I had a FEELING something was up! How lovely! :)
Amazing and wow and congrats
Ha Ha! I knew it! Just yesterday I was thinking that you had probably fallen in love and so had no time or coherent thought to post. I love it!!!
What a wonderful, sweet, romantic as anything story! I don’t know either of you but I am thrilled for you both. I have always said love knows nothing of space, time or distance – it just knows. You two have certainly proved that!
Lovely. I mean I figured it out weeks ago but to hear from you makes it that much better. Lots of happiness to you both.
i too was teary as i read. so genuinely and sincerely happy for both of you. can he come to “Shintmas 2008″? we’d love to meet him!
YAY! That definitely explains your lack of posting lately. I figured something was up, glad it is positive!
Now I can forgive your for being absent from the blogging station. Mazel tov. Congratulations. You go girl…and guy!
You are both beautiful…and smart…and funny…and I am so happy for you.
Never mind the fact that we have never met!
Gradon and Meg. Yeah.
Boston in the fall… who KNEW it would be this amazing! We are so thrilled for you (& Gradon!). Much love from 3 fans in K-town. XOXOXO
I am sincerely thrilled for you. Deliriously ecstatic. I have spent a wee bit of time reading all of your posts past and present since stumbling across you on the net. At first glance, on good days, you seem like the happiest person on the planet. Colour me surprised when I read your past posts and discovered the health problems and such. You are a simply astoundingly amazing person Meg Fowler and you more than deserve a wonderful stupendous fellow. Congrats! :)
Aw, y’all are sweeeeet.
Wholly crap MEG! Finally! and GOOD JOB!
He is a cutie!
I’m so happy for you. What a great story. Here’s to more full-body shots, OK? Round is beautiful!!
well done.
Oh Meg! I am THRILLED for you. I could not be happier. Big love through the miles.
And Gradon, if you are reading this, if you hurt her I will personally fly to Bean Town and kick your ever loven’ ass.
I knew you both online first, but I’ve been lucky to meet Gradon and grow to find him a valued friend here in Boston in person long before I met Meg in person. When I did meet you at SM4SC my thought for the two of you was “perfect”.
:) GUSH :)
Oh you have to love a good romance!
oh meggy, this post made me cry tears of joy :) so very happy I am to hear of this great news, and I DO understand your privacy levels so it makes me that much happier to read about it on here, MUAH!
:)
that is all <3
So I have been reflecting on all the lovely things that have happened to you recently in the context of the 18(!) years that I have known you and seen you mature into the exceptional woman that you are, despite the hurts and setbacks. And I think it would be the most amazing movie. You should write a screenplay. I wonder who you might cast as “Meg”. Or “Gradon”, for that matter…
I continue to be tickled pink, my friend.
If nothing else ever comes of Twitter, this makes it all worthwhile. Ecstatic for you. And wishing you all good.
mickeleh
It seems so cheap to say, “I’m so happy for you!”…it’s like laying in a meadow under the Northern Lights with someone you love and saying, “this is neat.”
Insufficient words, indeed.
Isn’t is great when big dreams are fulfilled? Because suddenly even the smallest of dreams are filled full.
Thank you for sharing some of the happy dance with us. Spin and twirl and take it all in!
Move over Carrie and Big–this is far more romantic and nobody deserves it more.
Twitterpation.
Hey Girl! I told Shannon this was why you were offline for so long – we’ve been looking for you for days and to find you pop up with such great news is awesome.
Dinner soon! I want dirt :0)
I’ve always believed that when something is right, it just falls into place, without much effort at all. Meg, that was one of the most special, most tender, most honest blog posts I’ve ever read. Doesn’t hurt that I love you both so much and am beyond happy for the two of you.
I hope wine in the North End and helium sing-a-longs were just the beginning of many silly moments to come.
Massive love. x
(…and no, Andreas doesn’t have a blog. ha! that’ll be the day.)
I didn’t think anything would make me tear up more than Gradon’s blog post about you but this did it!
You are in l-o-v-e and it is wonderful for you to share it with your readers. It reminds me of how spectacular and “right” it feels when it happens.
Others have overcome obstacles of distance and nation and I have no doubt you two can overcome them as well with love on your side and the support of lot of people (on & offline) who only want the best for you both.
Congratulations, Meg! That’s such awesome news. And it’s so wonderful to see you (and your man) looking so deliriously happy in the photos. You so deserve it.
… On a side note, I just wanted to let you know that we recently pulled out the little sweater your mother knitted for Milo. It now fits Morris perfectly, and whenever I put it on Morris I think about you and how wonderful your mom must be to make such a beautiful gift for someone she doesn’t even know. Please thank her again for me.
And if you ever want to show a certain someone around the Sunshine Coast, you know where to come for dinner and drinks! We’ll even put you up for a night or two in the “honeymoon suite.” (Read: our fold-out coach.) ;-)
OH. I forgot to mention that all i noticed in those so-called “full body” shots was the hotness of those fantastic red shoes. close-toed, no less. you must be in love. with the shoes and the guy.
here’s to happiness! hooray!
Meg, even though I don’t know you, I adore you through your blog. I am so, so happy for you!
Tell me more! I want all the details. Let’s do coffee!
I once met a boy on the Internet first. And then we instant messaged and called and texted and even web-cammed. And then we both took a leap and met at Boston Logan Airport! And guess what? We got married 5 months later.
You described how I felt when I met him–perfectly comfortable. I knew I wanted to marry him when I had the world’s best time feeding squirrels with him in Boston Common.
I wouldn’t presume to say I know how you are feeling, but if it’s like I did, it’s a mixture of incredible elation to have FINALLY FOUND HIM and an intense longing to be in his presence RIGHT NOW THIS MINUTE.
I am so happy for you and I look forward to reading where the story goes from here!
You know I get all teary and giggly and squidgy whenever I read anything either one of you says about the other, right?
I’m firmly in the Fowler/Tripp fan club now! :)
Funny part is, I’ve been in both of your fan clubs for a long time now – but the fact that he sees what we see in you? Makes him move even higher in my book!! :)
Meg you look great! and I’m happy to hear that things are going really well for you!
One more thing which gives me confidence that REAL love is there, somewhere – not lost. You look amazingly beautiful together – like knit from the same rope. Be blessed.
You were in Boston? Nobody tells me anything.