HEY HEARTUN ~ I never thought I would be writing you, but I am (forgive me) heartbroken. I started playing Second Life about a year ago and met the love of my life right away. (Name withheld) and I had a love sweeter than any. We exchanged (real life) contact information, and while we didn’t talk about hooking up (in real life) we were headed there.
Our SL wedding was going to be a blow out. I spent far more RL money than I care to admit, but (name withheld) helped out with what I TOLD him it cost and all the details were taken care of. All our friends were invited. We registered on SLExchange. We bought a place in (location deleted by editor). Our new home was to be a Barnesworth Anubis original.
I don’t remember everything involved, though, because I lost a lot of my memory surrounding the week or so before my RL car accident. When I got home from the hospital I found his many emails, phone messages and snail-mail letters. The early ones were worried, then pleading, then angry… then none.
We had partnered a few weeks before the wedding, but when I finally came back to the game after three months in intensive care and rehabilitation we were no longer partners. This was like four months ago. He has had me on ‘mute’ ever since and dropped me from his friends list altogether. Most of our mutual friends sided with him and don’t believe me. I’ve asked several to explain what happened to me to him but I don’t think they did.
So I got on with my life and thought I was over the pain when I ran into him the other day at NeoRealms fishing camp and I had to listen to him curse me out and say the meanest things to me… all the while he has me muted so I can’t tell him what happened. I have been crying all the time since then. He hates me. I love him, and I can’t tell him. Oh Heartun, I’m so sad! ~ MUTED LOVE
DEAR MUTED LOVE ~ Well, you can’t blame the guy. I mean, that story of yours — IF it is for real — is a cliche right out of Leo McCarey’s 1957 film “An Affair To Remember” with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. I mean, Kerr’s character Terry McKay has nothing on you!
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy hates girl, girl lives in quiet misery. It’s a tear jerker!! (Kind readers, if you haven’t seen it get some tissues and NetFlix this movie.)
So you’ve gotten to the part of the movie where Kerry Grant’s character Nickie Ferrante comes into her room and calls her all kinds of names, and she just sucks it up. Only you HAVE to suck it up because you can’t talk with him when he has you on mute. Do I have this right so far? Good.
But you forgot. You have his email address, his snail-mail address and his phone number. Mail him your hospital bill. If he doesn’t catch on and come running into your arms just continue on with your life — because this isn’t a movie. There aren’t always happy endings to story book beginnings. ~ HEARTUN BREAKER
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