Gary
I’m a fifty-something guy, born and raised in the UK. In 2007, I’d been married twenty-four years, had two grown up children and was quietly making my way to the grave. A chain of events, that started when I bought myself a new camera, caused me to take stock of myself and I undertook some fundamental life-changes. I’m still on that journey.
Ginger
I’m a forty-something girl, born and raised in the US. In 2007 I’d been divorced five years, raising three kids by myself, I was living a tired existence and figured that the die had been cast and I’d be alone for the duration. I decided that I wanted to live a creative existence and began taking photographs every day and sharing them on Flickr. Soon I found myself in conversations with a very sweet man in England. And it quickly became apparent that this man was going to be very important in my life. And he is. He’s the one.
Us
Ginger first made a comment on one of my pictures in February 2007. But that passed pretty much unnoticed. In mid April we started exchanging comments on each others photographs and by May we were exchanging daily e-mails and realised that what we had was very special. It was then that we started to dream about the possibility of spending the rest of our lives together. By June I was separated and in August I went to the US to meet my new-found soul mate for the first time. I was back again for Thanksgiving, then Christmas. When I visited in March we went straight from the airport to buy the engagement ring, so my proposal was hardly a surprise, just the timing had to be special. And it was, at the Art Institute of Chicago, just after we had finished viewing an exhibition by one of Ginger’s favourite artists – Edward Hopper.
This blog records the joys, trials and tribulations of our transatlantic love affair, and provides a window on our life in the US where, as Ginger observes, “Happily ever after still means you have to clean house and pick up after kids. “
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