Jacques and I got married recently, and it was like a fairy tale. Like you read about. But I was part of it. How could that be?
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I Will
Note: This blog is part of a series on a recent bicycle tour across Austria, along the Danube. To read from the beginning, click here.
Breaking. Bad. (Part 1)
Note: This is the first of two parts. Jacques—the guy I met while online dating a year ago—has learned how to walk again. Except for some residual pain he will likely feel for many months, he is
Crossing the Border
Note: This is the eleventh of eleven parts. Click here to read from the beginning. I didn’t worry about who Jacques might be dating, but only because I was oblivious to the fact that he was indeed
Mulling the Questions of Life
Note: This is the tenth of eleven parts. Click here to read from the beginning. I was traveling to Florida, to visit my brother Jeff and his wife, Wendy, in the middle of March, and, I’ll tell you,
Decisions, Decisions
Note: This is the ninth of eleven parts. Click here to read from the beginning. I walked with Lipton for over an hour that night, even though it was bitter cold. I remember crying at one point and
What Have I Got to Lose?
Note: This is the eighth of eleven parts. Click here to read from the beginning. Immediately after he broke ties with me, Jacques deleted me from his Bumble account, so I childishly deleted our
Mistakes Were Made
Note: This is the seventh of eleven parts. Click here to read from the beginning. I had a second date with Jacques that was even more enticing than the first.
Vulnerability, Passion
Note: This is the sixth of eleven parts. Click here to read from the beginning. Two weeks of texting with Jacques passed quickly, and then it was time for us to meet. This came about a week after the
Keeping the Conversations Going
Note: This is the fifth of eleven parts. Click here to read from the beginning. In the evenings, it was uncanny that Jacques and Troy would text me within minutes of the other.