From: b645znb@utarlg.uta.edu (***** FIRE BALL *****)
Subject: Re: The IRC Lover, something for Valentine's Day
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Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:39:00 GMT

In article <93008.130750PDLBH@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <PDLBH@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes...
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>An IRC person posted this poem, which reminds me of the "good time"
>I used to have :*)   :

Hey Le Duc !
 I know who you're referring to.. that girl is my em ga'i, and she's not
that type of person ... Anyways, get super glue, and glue your heart together.
Don't let it break apart like that.

  RYU

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>            Chuye^n. Tinh` IRC
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>        To^i co' mo^t. ngu*o*i` tinh`
>        Nhu*ng chu*a he^` tha^y' ma(t.
>        Chi? bie^t' trong khoanh~ kha(c'
>        Cung` khoang? cach' tho*i` gian
>        Vi` cam? me^n' thu*o*ng chang`
>        Qua lo*i` vang`, y' sa(t'
>        Ne^u' ga(p. chang` to^i cha(c'
>        Se~ ma(c' chu*ng' tu*o*ng tu*
>        May chi? mo*i' thu* tu*`
>        Qua ddu*o*ng` gia^y ddie^n. toan'
>        Chang` cung` to^i suy ddoan'
>        Cung` toan tinh' tu*o*ng lai
>        To^i hen. ho` nay mai
>        Cung` ai lo*i` hen. tru*o*c'
>        Nhu*ng nhu*ng~ gi` mo* u*o*c'
>        Cung~ chi? la` u*o*c' mo*
>        No*i cho^n' a^y' xa mo*`
>        Ngu*o*i` dda^u ngo*` to^i mong
>        Cung` ngong' tro^ng tu*ng` phut'
>        Va` mo^i~ luc' the^m sa^u`
>        Nhu* dde^m tha^u ta^m to^i'
>        Ngu*o*i` be^n a^y' xa xo^i
>        Xin tha^u' hie^u? cho to^i...
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>                    =ViVu=
>                    1/5/93
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>My story is not so much different from yours, which is why I feel
>sympathetic to your situation.  Actually, the encounter happened
>a long time before I IRC and meet her.  It all happened on that
>day of September, if I remember correctly, when I posted an article
>to make friends in SCV, something similar to "ti`m ba.n 4 fu+o+ng".
>The initial exchange was by email, and then through IRC where we
>entangled ourselves with all kinds of funs you can think of, ranging
>from kicking (an irc command), name calling (this is more fun than
>flaming in scv :)), and finally jealousy :))... To tell you the truth,
>I don't have the slightest idea on how love overcomed me or when it
>finally conquered my sentimental feeling, but I knew that I was in
>love when each day I can't work without logging on to IRC, typing
>a command to query her whereabout (sort of stalking her). The only
>problem that tortured me day after day was her refusal to be truthful
>about herself.  In my mind, she had become an enigma with an appealing
>power to attract men, and I am only one of her victims: a victim of
>unrequited love.  I was not aware of how abusive I became at work
>because my boss had caught me spending time chatting on network.  Only if
>she knew...yes, only if she knew I was a prisoner of romance in what
>was called "Internet Relay Chat" ...More and more I abandonned my
>obligations at work, my mind started to wander around and my colleagues
>began commenting about me as if I were a LSD addict.
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>                    (3 months later)
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>All my IRC files have been destroyed.  The only regret I had was
>that I still haven't known how she looks like.
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>Conclusion:      Don't fall in love in IRC or you'll be darned like me.
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>Le Duc :-)
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