I'm going to do this Cliff's style.
- Was on political forums on MySpace.
- Met a girl there who lived 350 miles away (NY State).
- Got to know here very well, developed a relationship.
- Fell for her.
- Set up a meet six months after we met online, she was coming to Montreal.
- Took the week off from work.
- She never shows and breaks off all contact.
- I freak out.
- I manage to contact her by phone.
- Turns out she was actually her own mother who was using her abandoned profile.
- Actual person I thought I had been talking to finds out what her mother did.
- Actual person contacts me to make sure I'm OK.
- Actual person and I hit it off and end up dating for several months (traveling back and forth) before we decide the distance is too big a deal.
- I never actually met twisted mother face to face; every time I went to pick up actual person, twisted mother stayed in room.
I'm leaving out a lot of details, things I never even told "actual person" because she probably would have murdered her mother.
The level of work Twisted Mother put into pretending she was her own daughter was insane. I was working in internet security at the time, and when things got serious between us I briefly considered the possibility she wasn't real but dismissed it. The identity was clearly real and there was nothing to suggest she wasn't legit.