My story is not a sad one.

I could make it sad, but crying on myself is not part of my DNA.

Overall, my second life began in February 1998.

I am not talking about the game.

I am Italian.

I desperately fell in love with a beautiful woman from Seattle.

We started to write in December 1995... then, the internet was so slow, it was faster to send the picture by regular mail.

Thinking about it, I am not sure the word attachment, existed at the time.

By the way, my name is Angelo.

We started to write to the other every day.

After 8 months, I decided to jump on an airplane and go to San Diego for 2 weeks, and to Seattle for 5 weeks.

I arrived in Seattle, on September the sixth.

Guess what. It was raining! I know it is very rare over there!!!!

Stella's apartment was small and adorable.

If you know Seattle, the apartment was 200 yards away from Green Lake.

We spent the whole evening, chatting and staring at the eyes ofthe other.

It took us only a few hours to fall in love with the other, and two days to understand we were going to be married.

I am going to explain more in details, later on, what happened between October 1996 and February 1998.

It was very long and difficult to get the visa to marry her.

At the end, I was able to move to America, taking the flights Rome-London and

London-Seattle on February 13th 1998, just in time to spend our first Valentine's day together.