heartbreaker, fate maker 

I joined an online dating service in 2001 and, after a few disappointing dates, my online profile caught the eye of a man in Boston. I live in Los Angeles, but heck, what’s a few thousand miles, right??? We exchanged several e-mails before I gave this guy Ethan my phone number. Hours of phone calls later, I agreed to fly to Boston and meet in person. He’d sent me his picture. He was handsome, smart, funny, and available.

I’d never been to Boston before, so I figured worst-case scenario, I’d learn a new city if my date wound up a dud. No chance of that, I thought, when I saw him waiting at the gate, flowers in hand: Ethan was drop-dead gorgeous – and he was mine!