Everyone is being so sweet!  (*JP does his best 
impression of the bashful vulture from Bugs 
Bunny*)  *^_^*

I suddenly got the wild fear that perhaps I had 
misled everybody.  We aren't engaged (although we 
have discussed it already---yow!).  We are still 
in the very early stages (just like the partial 
rhyme I posted).  But I recently flew down to meet 
her for the first time and found out that she is 
just as fun, crazy, sweet, smart, and *SEX-AY* in 
person as she is online and on the phone.  And I 
felt I needed to do a little "shouting from the 
rooftops".  ;-)

Mina,
We met here.  ^_^  Because of a cute Lupin cel she 
posted.  I complimented her on it and we bounced 
introductory e-mails back and forth for a few 
days.  Then some time went by.  I heard from her 
again after 9-11 as she offered some unsolicited 
comfort when I mentioned that a friend of mine had 
died in the attack.

Then.....I disappeared from cel collecting for a 
while.  When I came back to the forum, she said 
hello, and....well, I guess it snowballed from 
there.  :-)  I had to hop the first flight I could 
catch down to her part of the world and experience 
the insanity of Mel for myself, first-hand.

LOL!

(She is sooooo going to be blushing when she finds 
this thread!)

JP