I first met Armando on the internet when he added me to myself one not so special Saturday morning at the beginning of March 2010. There are so many things about that day that could have been different and we never would have met. He didn't usually get the chance to go on the computer on Saturdays because his sister was home and she used it, but that day she was out. He only searched for people online from England and I just happened to be online at the time so he added me. We didn't really talk that much when we first added each other. We would talk occasionally and spoke about our tattoo's since that was a common interest we had. We added each other to an instant messenger and still didn't really talk that often fro a while but then one day we just started talking a lot and really clicked.
We started to talk every single day and since neither of us worked or had many commitments we would talk all day long on the webcam and microphones.
It didn't take us long to start planning to meet each other but with us living so far away from each other (me in England and him in El Salvador) it wasn't easy. Originally we were planning for Armando to come and stay in England for a few months with me but since I was living in a small house with quite a few people and Armando wouldn't be able to stay for long without getting a VISA we decided that I would come over to El Salvador instead.
I booked the tickets and then we eagerly awaited the day for our meeting to come.
I travelled to El Salvador on Wednesday 8th September 2010 just 6 months after we first met. It doesn't seem like it was very long to most people I suppose but since we spoke to each other literally every single day we were already so close and our lives were already pretty much so involved with each other. It was just the start of something beautiful and it shows that online and long distance relationships can work out, no matter how hard they can be to start off with.
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