Couple Finally Gets Together After 45,000 Emails
The tale of Melbourne couple Scott and Nicole McIntyre’s 12-year romance involves four internet platforms, 45,000 emails, a Craigslist posting and three continents. The pair lost contact several times after they first began communicating via Yahoo Chat in 1998, picking up the threads of their connection through the internet several times over the years. They were both living in the US at the time, relatively close to one another, but they never met or spoke on the phone. “We just chatted a couple of times about music and films on Yahoo Chat - nothing came of it other than a friendly chat,” Scott said. “We briefly reconnected in 2003 and exchanged a few emails about life until we lost contact again. “I thought about her a lot and every time I met someone with her name, I’d think about her and wonder how her life was going.” Nicole said she didn’t remember much about their conversations but she did remember Scott. “I just remember liking this guy. Someone so nice and smart who happened to share a few minutes of his day with me. Our initial encounter was brief, but it created a lasting impression,” she said. More than a decade after they first began communicating, Scott was living in Amsterdam last December when he woke up to an email that would change his life. An acquaintance had read a posting in the “Lost Connections” section of Craigslist and seen that someone was looking for him. That someone was Nicole. Continue reading here.
