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The Right One - Jo & Keith B

”We’ve both been single and we both know how it feels to be alone, and what’s nice is we’re together and we’re going through the same things everyday. There’s somebody there who understands. That’s a really nice thing.”

Jo, how was your dating life before you joined The Right One?
I was divorced and doing the bar scene (and that didn’t work out). I had children to protect and I had found out a lot about myself through dating, and I really needed to meet someone who had some credentials, someone who shared the same views and ideas that I had.

What was your opinion of matchmakers & dating sites before you tried this service?
Probably the most typical… I didn't want to seem desperate. I didn’t want to post my information out there for people to see and I would go online and see different people that I knew and I just didn't want to put my information and picture out there. It just didn't feel comfortable.

What inspired you to try The Right One?
I got the mailer and I threw it away, and then I finally tried it. I decided to go ahead and do it because it felt like the last couple of men that I dated had made me feel that I was dating somebody that I didn’t want to be around. I didn’t want to waste my time. You know what? I didn’t even want to get married when I started dating. I was thinking that I was just going to have a good time and it ended up being more like self acknowledgment – like ‘You know what? I actually do want to be with somebody.’

At The Right One, I was asked where I saw myself in five years? Did I see myself married? And I didn’t think so. I didn’t ever want to get married. The interviewer would drop her pen and look at me. Just to share information, I used to frequent the bar scene quite a bit because I like to dance and I like to socialize and one night a guy I’d seen there was there all night and he came over to me and said ‘I see you here all the time. Do you mind if I sit with you?’ and I said ‘No problem.’ And we had a great time; we danced a couple of times. Later he walked me out to my car. I wasn’t interested in dating him. I don’t think he was with me either. But the next day I turned on my TV and he was on the news – his daughter had been murdered in their kitchen. Yeah? I was with that guy last night. Who am I meeting out here in the bar? I have children to protect. That incident started getting me really scared, and then another guy was calling me late one night, and I just started thinking that it was all just really unsafe. You know the old days when you give your name and number on a napkin? Those days are over. Now people are downloading you on a cell phone.

How did you like working with them?
I liked it. The whole thing was very interesting. The first date I went on, it just didn’t click for me, but the second date turned out to be my husband. Initially we just talked on the phone, as we were so busy with our own lives, we never got a chance to meet. The third guy I met, and I went on a date with him (and it was okay) but then I finally had contact with Keith and we met and ever since then we’ve been clicking really well. I had signed up for ten dates and I was planning on meeting all of them, but well, it just ended up that I just didn't want to after I met Keith. Like my, he’d only met one person before we met.

How does the interview process work?
I've told everybody I've met that this is the perfect thing to do. I mean I don’t know if it would work for them, but it worked for me and that’s my testimony. You feel safe and you’re not worried. You know that whomever you meet is looking for the same thing you are. You know, the funny thing is, is that when I got his information that says I’m Keith, I’m 35 years old, I’ve got two kids, I’m a single dad, I've got custody of my kids, I play guitar, I live in a small hick town in Nebraska - I’m thinking ‘Oh my God, he’s five years younger than I am, I don’t want two extra kids, I’ve got three already, I don’t like a hard rock and roll guy. I was also thinking “I don’t know how much money you spent, but lets together and get it done and over with. I’m sure you’re not the right one.’ And so I’m visualizing a ZZ top looking guy with sunglasses and a long beard. I had no idea what to expect. But we had so much fun talking on the phone.

Who made the initial contact?
We played phone tag with messages for a while, and Keith gave up on me for a week. He was busy, he’s a single dad, and I’m a single mom. And we decided to get together around July 4th but we were both busy, so the first free day that we had was July 9th, three years ago.

Describe your first date. How did it go?
For me, it was magical. Very magical. We went downtown to Old Market, which has a lot of shops and eating places, bars, brick sidewalks, horses, waterfalls. It’s whimsical and romantic. I told him that I’d be at Mr. Toads, a bar on the corner. And I was going to be outside, and he asked, “How will I recognize you?” and I said, “I’ll have a blue purse.” And I put it on top of the table. And he shared with me later that he drove by and he liked what he saw and he came back and parked and met me. He didn't tell me about that until after we were married.

What was your first impression of Keith?
Well, remember that I thought he was going to be like one of the guys from ZZ Top? I saw him and I asked “You’re Keith?” He had a very nice trimmed beard and he just seemed so… normal looking. <laughs>. We had a really good date; the conversation flowed. We talked for a while and then we took a walk through the park through the waterfall area, and strolled through art galleries and had a few drinks and went through the ice cream shop. We just went shopping, and at one point along the way, we were walking (and I’m short, I’m like 4’10” and a half and I wanted somebody who was six foot under and he’s 5’7 or 5’10) and I just grabbed his hand and we started holding hands. It was just a very perfect fit; it felt very natural. We talked about it later; he was surprised that I grabbed his hand. We were walking down the sidewalk like friends and we were holding hands. That is probably something that I've never done with anybody on a first date. Actually I was pretty tired, I was pretty worked up and nervous about the date all day, thinking that I wasn’t going to go and then I was thinking about getting my friends to go with me, maybe look from across the street, you know crazy thoughts, and then I finally calmed down and went on the date, and I relaxed when I met him because he’s just a very calming presence in my life. We just grabbed hands and we were very quiet, we were just together. Around 10pm, I told him that I was tired and that I should go home, so he walked me to my car. Later he told me that he didn't want it to end, but I was pretty tired and we didn't kiss on the first date. He said he had a really good time and I did too. We just gave a quick embrace and he waved good-bye to me. My daughter, who’s 19, later asked me what I thought and I thought ‘You know, it was nice, it was good, it was nice.’ But you know, the more we got to know each other, and within a month we were head over heels for each other. We were just in love. And we just hadn’t said the L word yet.  It was about a month later when he told me that he loved me, and I’m like ‘I love you, too!”

What do your friends think about how you two met?
Crazy, wild and very interested and wanting to know how this happened. Sometimes when acquaintances or strangers ask how we met, we just look at each other and we say “Mr. Toads.” I tell my close friends and co-workers that we met through a dating service called The Right One. My ex-husband even asked me how I met Keith, and when I told him, he said, “I don’t have that much money.” But its like, you know what? How much is your life worth to you?

Can you describe when you fell in love?
We were very comfortable with each other from the very beginning. It just was two or three days later that we met for a lunch date, and then we just started going out every weekend. He had a pretty good idea the very first night. We walked over to the park and we grabbed each other’s hands and he says he knew then. Like I said, it felt very comfortable. He gave me a Valentines’ bouquet and a card that read “Happy Valentine’s Day, sweetie, I love you. With each and every day I feel stronger in love with you and I wish everybody could be as happy as we are.” We truly are very happy. We haven’t even had an argument, and you know what?  With me having three kids and him with two kids, a blended family, two cats that he doesn’t particularly care for, and that says a lot, I always tease him and tell him that that the only thing that makes me mad is that I hadn’t met him earlier.

How did you introduce the blended families?
He works Monday through Saturday. He lived 25 miles away so we didn’t get to see each other every day, we’d only see each other on weekends, and every once in a while we’d see each other for five or ten minutes before he went home after work. We’d meet at a park or quickly meet for lunch. Our weekends were very special to us. I offered to meet his kids. We probably introduced the kids about a month and a half, two months later. Because we knew we had something. His oldest son still remembers the first day he met me. I wore a dress. I went to his house to meet his children first. I wouldn’t take him to my house because I’d had so many bad experiences with dating so we used to meet at the Wal-Mart <laughs> parking lot and then we’d go out. I was just being safe. There are a lot of issues around divorce and kids and trusting.  What makes it really special for us is that my ex-husband is also remarried and really happy in his relationship and I get along really well with his new wife. She’s done a wonderful job transitioning to step-mom, mom. It’s just all been really good.

You’re married now. How did Keith propose?
I have been married twice before. Once for three years to my college sweetheart, with whom I had my first kid. And once to Rob for twelve years and had two kids, and I had been divorced for three years. When I met Keith, I was not going to get married again. I had told Keith that I loved him, we could be together forever, but… why be married? That was my attitude. I didn’t need to be married to show that I love you more. He lived 25 miles away, remember, so we saw each other on weekends and I offered to take care of his kids on Saturday morning when he went to work, so at 7 o’clock in the morning he would drop off his two kids, and he’d go to work until noon or 1:30. When he got home, he’d be so tired that he’d take a nap and so during that time I got to know his kids. Our kids blended we’d do things together, we’d go out after his nap, and either my oldest daughter would baby-sit and we’d have our night out or we’d spend time with the kids. Then Sunday morning it evolved into him spending the night at my apartment and he’d say “I have to do laundry, go grocery shopping, get the kids ready for school the next day because they live far away, so after a whole, lets see… we met in on July 9th? So that whole year, in that summer, we thought enough of this weekend stuff, and we decided to start looking for a place to live together. We ended up buying a house and we decided the heck with being married, lets just move in together, so we bought a house that was perfect with enough bedrooms, enough of everything we needed. We moved in together and then he stopped talking about getting married, because when he was asking, I was wondering, ‘oh my God, how is that going to work? What are we going to do? Everything’s working so well right now, why throw in something different?’ So that was my attitude. And then after a while, after we moved in together, he didn’t say anything to me. Then I started to wonder, ‘Are we still getting married? Are you still interested?’ He just kind of held back.

So one day… we had been working hard and thinking about taking a vacation and I suggested Mexico or Florida, for a week, just to get away. We were on our way out, and we went upstairs to get our jackets, and he grabbed my hands and got down on his knees and said “Instead of going somewhere on vacation, why don’t we go somewhere on our honeymoon?” I’m like… Huh? That’s when the ring came out and I was totally shocked. He hadn’t been talking about marriage for a while so I had no idea. He’d gone shopping for a ring.

I’m sure it’s pretty.
It’s very pretty. I get compliments on it all the time. It’s not what I would have picked out for myself because it’s huge and gaudy, because that’s how he sees me.

He sees you as huge and gaudy? <laughing>
Well, he sees me as ‘This is what I deserve or this is what I need or this is what I want.’

What was the wedding like?
He had been married before in Vegas. I had done a church wedding and I had done an outdoor wedding, and with five kids, I said, you know, I really don’t want to do the whole wedding church thing. What we ended up doing was very simple. We went to Jamaica and got married on the ocean. Very beautiful. It turned out really nice. We survived the hurricane that came through, the tropical storm. We almost didn’t get married on the beach but the rain stopped and the sun came out just long enough to get us married, take pictures and cut the cake, and then afterwards it started pouring again, so it worked out great.

How would you describe your life together now?
He says it’s all soccer now. <laughing> We have four soccer practices, five or six a week, and four games on the weekend. Right now we’re just trying to be mom and dad to our kids and get them to school every day. We’ve both been single and we both know how it feels to be alone, and what’s nice is we’re together and we’re going through the same things everyday. There’s somebody there who understands. That’s a really nice thing.

Do you have any advice for others searching for love via The Right One Dating service?
Don’t give up hope. It worked out well for us. I’m not sure if I was even looking for marriage, like I said, so that was pretty special in and of itself. I got more than what I was looking for, and maybe deep inside, perhaps I wasn’t being honest with myself, but it’s been perfect. It’s been great.

Together Dating - Judy M & Dan D

”I think neither of us had very high expectations before we met, but when we did, we just hit it right off and we’ve been together ever since.”

”When I first saw her, I liked her. It was more then what I thought I was going to run into, better then I’d hoped. We had dinner and afterwards I took her to my favorite bar and we danced to country music.”

Can you describe your dating life before you joined The Right One?
Judy: It probably wasn’t real great. I was married before, got divorced and my ex-husband was an alcoholic drug addict. He was verbally and physically abusive. So that was bad. Then I joined a separated and divorced group through my church, and I dated a couple of people from there after I had gotten divorced. So I had known them for each a year or more I guess by the time I actually dated any of them. Not that there was anything wrong with any of them, I just think we were in the wrong place and time to be trying to have a relationship.

Dan: I didn’t have that much of a dating life actually. I was always single with no kids.

What was your opinion of matchmakers & dating sites before you tried The Right One?
Judy: No chance for them. Generally speaking, I’m a very skeptical person when it comes to those things. As I was saying before, I had dated a couple of the guys that I had met through the church separated and divorced group that I belonged to. When I realized that wasn’t working out, I started getting into going to singles clubs and things like that, and that was just ugly. Then I did try another dating service and I had met someone and dated him for a couple of months but in the end, he wasn’t really looking for a relationship.

Dan:  Actually The Right One was my first service.

What inspired you to try The Right One?
Judy: I had an advertisement in the mail and I actually looked at that advertisement at one time and then threw it away because I didn’t think it was right for me. I had actually filled out the questionnaire form and then threw it away because I didn’t feel comfortable doing it. It was more nerves then anything and it just felt weird doing it through an agency. Then I guess the second time I actually worked up enough nerve to do it.

Judy: One day my mother saw an advertisement and she suggested that I check it out. My mother is immensely against these things and when she suggested that, I thought that it must be fate, so I agreed to give it a try. I went to the website and filled out a form and then someone from The Right One contacted me.

How did you like working with them?
Dan: They were okay. I actually met four women before I met Judy but I had a couple of more before that where they didn’t even return my phone calls.

Judy: They seemed okay and they seemed to be trying to do what they could even though it wasn’t working. I was starting to give up on it a little bit, but in the end it obviously worked very well.

What advice do they offer if people aren’t contacting you?
Judy: In the questionnaire that you fill out, one of the comments mentions that if he doesn’t call you, then you try calling him. I did that a couple of times but they weren’t calling me back. There were probably three or four of them where the guys didn’t contact me back for whatever reason.

How does the interview process work?
Dan: I went to their office. They asked me a bunch of questions such as what I was looking for in a woman, basically all about what I’m looking for. I felt like they were doing a thorough job and I felt confidant that they might be able to fix me up with someone. And they actually do a background check.

The interview took about an hour and a half, maybe two hours. I wasn’t sure if they were going to help me. And I was of the mindset of ‘Hey, if it worked out for me, good, and if it doesn’t, oh well.’

Judy: They had me come in for an interview and I was asked a whole bunch of questions and after I signed up they informed me that I would be matched with one person a month give or take for a span of time. If they didn’t have a match for me then they wouldn’t send me a match. The first couple of matches lacked the needed chemistry. You have to click… and it wasn’t clicking either on one side or the other for the first couple of dates.

Actually Dan and I had talked on the phone four or five times before we actually went on our first date before we managed to meet and talk in person. I think neither of us had very high expectations at that point in time, but we just hit it right off and we’ve been together ever since. And on the phone calls, we spoke very briefly each time. Dan is not a very chatty person; he’s very quiet.

You’re given a name and some basic information, but no photos. How do you feel about not being able to see a picture before you meet?
Dan: Nervous. You have little information to go by, so you’re basically nervous when you start making that first phone call. Then you get nervous again if you have to meet them. It’s like round one and round two.

Judy: Oh yeah, no photographs and little information. They tell you the person’s age, general occupation. Like Dan was in the mortgage field was I think what it said, so it wasn’t specific as to what he did in the mortgage field. And it stated his age and a few things that he liked to do. They suggested that I ask him about his day and that was about it.

So they give you a conversational pitch?
Judy: Yes. It was kind of funny because I asked him about his day and he responded with, “I don’t know. What am I supposed to tell you about that?” So I said, “I don’t know. That’s what it says on the paper!”

Who made the initial contact?
Judy: I’m not sure but I think it was probably Dan. I was kind of getting fed up with calling and not getting any return calls. I think he had actually contacted me first, and it just happened to be bad timing, as someone else, also from The Right One, had contacted me and I had made arrangements to meet with him that weekend, and I was going away to my brother’s the weekend after that, so it was three or four weeks later. We just touched base with each other briefly once a week or so after that until we actually managed to get together and have dinner.

Describe your first date. How did it go?
Judy: Oh yeah, the first date. We actually went to Jersey because Dan doesn’t know his way around very well. He has a really poor sense of direction. I drove there and it was funny because where I ended up meeting him was probably further away from me then if I had met him somewhere else. But it was just one of those things you couldn’t have known that at the time when we were trying to map it out. We didn’t have specifics, we had generalizations of each other and you didn’t want to get too specific until you knew each other. Anyhow, when I got there I was just about on time, maybe a little late but not real late. He met me outside. It was TGIF restaurant and it was interesting. He insisted on being outside and meeting me outside and to walk in together. We started off just planning on having dinner but we hit it off so well that we decided to go on and we went out dancing. So I guess it was probably all night. Yeah I mean it was like from 7 at night until probably 1 or 2 in the morning probably.

Dan:  I think it went very well. I took her out to a restaurant and we were there for a while. I took her out for dinner.

How did you recognize each other?
Judy: We were talking on cell phones at the same time as I was pulling into the parking lot and I was grabbing my car and he was grabbing his car and that was how we found each other. As soon as I parked my car, I got out and I saw a guy standing there hanging out of his car door with the phone in his ear.

Dan: We were meeting in the parking lot. She told me what car she was actually driving. I told her when I first started talking to her to meet in the parking lot, I think. I got there first and she was running late so I gave her a call and told her I was driving a red car and I described what I looked like.

What was your first impression of each other?
Judy: When I first saw Dan, I thought he was an attractive, nice looking guy. He had an air of confidence about him that I found him attractive. He was dressed nicely and had a collared shirt on and he was clean and neat and all that.

Dan: I liked her. It was more then what I thought I was going to run into, better then I’d hoped. We had dinner and afterwards I took her to my favorite bar and we danced to country music. It’s my favorite hang out. Its like a bar type of thing, and they have live music and a dance floor every Friday and Saturday night.

How long have you guys been dating?
Dan: It will be a year June 2nd. That was when we actually met.

What do your friends think about how you two met?
Dan:  They were actually surprised; I guess they were more surprised then anything.

Judy: They’re fine with it. My friends know everything that I went through so they understand. I had one bad run after another so and I stopped dating for about two years and then I tried a couple of different things, cooking classes and stuff, and it was good to get out and see other people in the same boat but that’s about all that came out of that. Then I called the Right One. So they kind of understood. My girlfriend said we were going to get married the very first time she came down and met him because she saw how we were together.

Can you describe when you fell in love?
Judy: I guess it was pretty much a gradual thing as things developed. I came to realize exactly who he was and that he was for real. It probably took me until the middle of August to digest that it was all real.

Dan: I was interested in her the first time I saw her. She’s there for me, she’s always on the phone if I need her, and she’s always there even if she’s in Pennsylvania, she’s always there. I can always count on her being there for me. My dad had a heart attack about a month and a half ago and she was there.

Congratulations on your engagement! Can you tell me about the proposal?
Judy: I guess you could say I knew about it, because we had discussed it and Dan had said that he had wanted me to move in with him and we were making plans and arrangements for my son Joe and I to move at the end of the year. I told him that I wasn’t moving in without an engagement ring. I didn’t think it was fair for me to have to make an investment and changes for my son’s life without at least having an engagement ring first. I kind of pushed a little bit, I guess, for it.

We had an argument back in like November and he said something about the fact that he was planning on asking me in March and that stuck in my head. In any case, I got the idea in my head and so by February I started saying ‘let me show you what rings I like’ and I showed him some rings online and figured he go and pick one out and buy one.

Then one day when we were up my way, he said he wanted me to go with him and for me to pick out the ring. This was before he proposed; he wanted me to pick out the ring though, so we went to Sears because they had a special on birthstone rings. I personally think engagement rings are overrated as far as cost, and I really liked the ring that I picked out. I think it’s very pretty, with emeralds and diamonds. I have a lot of Irish heritage and I quite like green. I have a couple of green rings, emerald rings. So I like emeralds.

Back to the proposal… He bought the ring and I picked it up the next weekend and then I gave it to him so that he would have it. Then on Easter, (he said he was going to ask me on Easter), he was going to have me go around the house and pick out Easter eggs but then he thought it would ruin it for his mom because then she wouldn’t get to tell everybody because we were having dinner with his whole family on Easter. So he didn’t want to do it that way and so then he had to think of another date. He said he had a date in mind and the date was March 30th but that’s the end of March and I’m thinking, ‘He’s not going to ask me.’ and I got mad, a little bit, not real bad.

It was the end of the weekend, and Joe was going to get ready for bed because I make him get ready for bed before we load in the car and head back to PA and that way he can just go straight to bed when we gets in. Joe was in the bathroom…Joe is my son and he’s 10, and while he’s in the bathroom and I’m just about ready to get up off the sofa to get my things, Dan had his arm around me and just turned around and knelt down in front of me and asked me to marry him.

Now at that point I had given up on him so I was thinking that it wasn’t going to happen. He must have picked another date.

How would you describe your life now and what are your future plans?
Judy: Life is pretty good right now. Dan has a really poor sense of direction, which is one of the reasons why we’re moving to where he is. I have an extraordinarily good sense of direction. You can give me a name and an address and I’ll find it. Dan, on the other hand, I remember during the first couple of weeks we were dating and it was probably because he was nervous too because I was in the car with him, but just driving through his own neighborhood, he must have made about six or seven wrong turns and got himself lost. I got him a GPS for Christmas.

So we’re moving to Jersey because Dan already owns a four bedroom house, and my son and I live with my mom, so we were going to have to move within the next year anyhow. I was getting myself out of debt from my marriage and I had gone to school and got certified to teach. I’m a teacher now. So a lot of changes have happened.

So our future plans are Joe and I are moving when he finishes school this year on June 18th. I’m going to be teaching summer school but that’s only about 20 hours a week and I’m going to hook Joe up with a whole bunch of different school programs, etc. that run through the summer, so he can meet some new kids and develop some friendships. We were in Jersey today and the kid that lives next door is the same age as Joe and they’ve been playing together.

Dan: My life has changed 100%. I don’t know what I’m doing day by day anymore. They’re moving in with me in June of this year and we’re getting married in June next year.

What about your wedding plans?
Judy: Right now we’re still working on them. The wedding is set for June 27th next year. We’re having it at Dan’s church, (he’s Presbyterian) and then we’re going to go see the priest at my church (I’m Catholic) tomorrow to see if they’re come down and do the blessing - so we have to work out all those specifics. For the reception, so far it looks like we’re probably going to have it at the same place we went dancing on our first date. Its Dan’s hang out place, the Golden Nugget. They have country bands come and play there on the weekends and dancing and it’s really nice. We go there all the time, and since that was where we went on our first date, it feels like the right place to have the reception.

Dan: I think it’s going to be simple wedding because this is her second wedding and my first. We have a church that I attend and we’ll be getting married there. It’s a Presbyterian Church plus dinner. We haven’t made up our mind on the reception yet; I think we might be having it at the Fire Hall or the place that we met, the place that I go to a lot. I’m leaning towards going to, I don’t know it all depends… it’s either the Fire Hall or the Golden Nugget. The Fire Hall is a hall and you can host a banquet there. We had a couple of parties at the Nugget, including my birthday party, so I know how things run there, plus they have some good food.

How does your son like Dan?
Judy: Oh Joe adores Dan; he just wants Dan to move up here because he doesn’t want to move. My life is going pretty good overall. Dan’s dad had a heart attack the week after we got engaged though. His parents had gone to the Dominican Republic and had just come back from that trip, and that night, Dan’s dad had a heart attack and he was rushed to the hospital. He’s doing good; he had triple bypass surgery.

Do you have any advice for others searching for love via The Right One?
Judy: Keep your mind open. You’re better off trying not to find everything out ahead of time. Wait, go, meet them, have the blind date and let it be a blind date, and then see how it unfolds. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it won’t, but you won’t know until you try. Be patient and know that when it’s the right time, it will happen. For a while it might seem like they’re mismatching you, but that’s because they’re still getting to know you. They’re waiting to see how you respond to those matches and getting to know you better - that’s how they can get you matched up with the right one.

Dan: I would say… don’t give up trying. Just because the first date or second date didn’t work out well, the next date might be the one for you.


UPDATE: We are all living in Jersey now and my son, Joe, is so thrilled. He actually says all the time how happy he is that I made him do this as he now has a friend who lives right next door, and he has at least as many friends through school and other activities such as cub scouts and soccer.  He loved the camp he attended this summer and we are all adjusting very well.  We are having a bigger wedding than what we originally planned, as both parents wanted something more and once we had the general list of invitees determined, we realized that the Golden Nugget would be too small. The Fire Halls no longer do weddings in this area, so we are doing a banquet hall. They have a package deal, so everything is done through them.

We sent out some country dance steps for everyone to learn (if they want to) as we plan on doing some country dancing at the wedding. The reception will be at Shannon's Country House on Route 30 right in Atco. It's close to us and all of Dan's family, as well as our Church, Atco United Presbyterian. The wedding will be blessed by the Catholic Church, although the priest is uncertain if he will be able to attend. I do still have Joe attending CCD as he always has, but we rarely go to that church as we do not really know anyone there, and Dan's parents, grandmother, aunt and uncle all go to the Presbyterian church. It seems to be growing on us bit by bit. All in all, life is really good.  I cannot thank The Right One enough for bringing us together. We were both searching for someone who lived closer to us, and so I'm not sure if we would have ever met otherwise. Thanks!