The Greatest Love Story of the Century

It really is. Please tell everyone you know. :-)

Text from the Facebook page:

Imagine for a second that you've spent your life searching for something you ultimately decide doesn't exist. Imagine that years after you stop looking, you suddenly find it, and you realize it's something you never even knew you were looking for! So now you think, "oh man, THAT's what I needed all along!" and it's...half a world away.

Meet Deedee and Gregory, two Quirkyalones who found each other on Facebook, in a chance exchange on a mutual friend’s status thread. For the past five months, these two crazy kids have carried on a virtual relationship. And although they have never physically met, they are very much in love with each others' hearts and minds.

This is, as we see it, The Greatest Love Story of the Century. It’s post-modern love at its finest - and as far as we’re concerned, it’s the Real Deal. It’s hard to describe the true depth and scope of how we feel, but we love each other - truly. But, you know, it’s online. And while it looks great on paper and works fabulously in cyberspace, the fact remains that we want to find out if it works in "3-D".

The future of our relationship is obviously uncertain, given the geographical limitations. These limitations, however, aren't necessarily impossible to work around! BUT...we can't possibly know anything until we find out for sure if our relationship is workable on a real-world, real-life level. In order for us to take the next step (or even know what the next step will be), we need to spend some actual time together. Because the nature of his work and situation preclude Gregory from traveling for awhile, we have decided that Deedee should join him in Thailand for the holidays this coming winter. This is more than a vacation - it is an experiment in love. :-)

So…what is this page all about, and where do YOU fit in? Well, we’re begging, to put it bluntly. We are trying to raise $2000 to offset the cost of Deedee’s plane ticket. All her other trip expenses will be taken care of by our meager incomes and whatever’s left of the student loans this semester, but the plane ticket…yikes. So we thought, “Hey, people love a good love story…maybe we can find 2000 people to send us a dollar to help make it happen!”

And that’s really all we want. Just a dollar. Or fifty cents, if that’s all you have. Hell, drop some bottles and cans at Deedee’s house if you’re local to her. Buy some of her artwork. Whatever. We just want to be together for Christmas and see if this thing actually works. If it does? Well, you can feel slap-happy and warm and fuzzy that your little old dollar facilitated the most awesome union since … [umm, insert your favorite against-the-odds couple here]. If it doesn’t, and turns out to be the most carnage-strewn disaster in the history of mankind? Hey, you’re still only out a buck. And either way, you’re off the hook for a wedding gift (Christmas, too!). ☺

Whether you know us or not, we hope you’ll take a chance on our in-love, broke asses and help us out. You’ll be treated to updates and photos along the way (to prove that your dollar really did go to this trip and not to a pyramid scheme or a shoe-shopping spree) and we’ll even send you (like, real snail-mail!) a postcard from Thailand if you give us your address! If you want to get really fancy and donate a lot of money, we’ll send you a special gift! We don’t know what that is yet, but you’ll love it, we promise!

But seriously, please suggest this page to all your friends. Ask them to do the same. We’ve already seen the power of Facebook in our introduction. We're writing our story before everyone's eyes, and we want you to help us write the next chapter. There are 500 million people on Facebook – surely there are 2000 of you with big hearts and some spare change.

With all our love and gratitude,
Deedee and Gregory

P.S. Yes, we know – there will be haters. Please try not to rain your hate on our parade, though. If you’re not interested in tossing a buck in our direction, simply ignore the page and move on. We’re not interested in hearing from you. Thanks! And love love love!!!!