This is for Jen and anyone else who gets confused by my typos....
I was not born in the same town as Ben.  I was born in the USA.  However, when I was about 10, I used to play a game with my cousin, who was visiting from Italy.  You know, the games girls play where they fall in love with imaginary princeses and get married and all that.  Well anyhoo, when my cousin went back to Italy, we used to write letters to each other and to our characters.  We did this for YEARS.Well, I got to get in much detail about the love of my life.  I wrote about him for over 5 years.  Well this is the man I described.  He was a quiet man, a bit aloof, a loner.  He drank a little sometimes, he smoked, he dressed in all black.  He had a quick wit and a dry sense of humor.  He did not trust easily.  He was from the UK.  His mother was an actress and gone.  He lived with his father.He had long dark hair and light eyes.  And once he fell in love with me, which was fast and furious, the bond was unbreakable.

I could go on for hours about this man I used to write about....

I even used to draw cartoon characters of this man.  And guess who it looks like...Now fast forward time... I am in real life.  I am 26 and I have NEVER gone out with anyone with long hair.  I see Ben and my breath stopped.  He was the most beautuful guy that I ever saw.  I actually stopped walking and talking and just looked.  He did not see me, it was threw a mirror.  He had long light hair and light eyes and was all dressed in black  (Shortly after we got together he dedcided to dye his hair black.  He never told me was was going to, he just did it.)When I met him, it was obvious by his speech, that he was indeed British.  Shortly after we started hanging out together, he told me that he does not trust people easily.  His father is an artist and gone.  He lived with his mom.  Ben was very quiet and aloof.  And back in the day, he did drink and smoke.  And one of the things I fell in love with first about Ben is his wicked dry sense of humor.Ben and I kissed for the first time in August of 1995 and then were married 5 months later.  Here we are fast and furious 9.5 years later.
So how's that for strange?  I knew exactly who I was going to marry YEARS before I met him!