In the summer of 2004, an acquaintance pointed me toward her art work on a little site called deviant ART. Being clueless about the site, I signed up thinking I'd be able to search, I couldn't, but I did find a really cool site.

During my second week of poking
around, and submitting some older pieces of art a comment was left on a piece (now hidden for it's shoddy composition) titled Echo. He had just submitted a piece of writing titled E'kos (pronounced echoes), so the title caught his eye. I wandered over to his profile page, and found him just adorable, then I scrolled down and saw that not only was he 3 years younger than I, he was also 750+ miles away.

I left a comment and went on my way. Never to have anything but the last word, he came back and...