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Circular Journey: An Online Encounter
Author:
Karen Phillips
Published:
5/29/2009 7:03:38 PM
Pages:
220
Keywords:
affair,divorce,marriage,mid-life crisis,Online dating,relationships,romance
Audience Level:
Mature
Genres:
Family & Relationships / DivorceFamily & Relationships / MarriageFiction / General / Romance
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They are emotionally drawn to each other; yet question a future together. Through an online correspondence, they examine aspects about one another that go beyond any face-to-face relationships. Deck and Kate’s growing closeness is elusive yet addictive in many ways. Today’s adults seeking love their second or third time around generally are not found sitting in smoky bars listening to music hoping the love of their life will appear. In this electronic age, relationships are being formed through online encounters.
Deck and Kate test their fate, experiment with building a relationship at a distance and examine many of life's lessons.
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Karen Phillips has been in academia and a professor of Human Development for over 20 years. She has worked with Cooperative Extension at three land grant universities (Virginia Tech, University of Missouri and North Carolina State University). Although she has multiple scholarly publications (under the name of Karen DeBord), this is her first work of fiction. She currently lives in North Carolina, but soon hopes to retire with her husband and move back to her home state of Virginia to run a Bed and Breakfast and do more writing, perhaps even a children’s book next time.
Another of Karen’s books is entitled Love to Share, a book of poetry.
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Sunday November 13, 2002 8:19:13 PM
SKY: Hey- I am back
DECKERMAN: That is good- you are safe and at home
SKY: Yeah- lots of time to think –
DECKERMAN: Are you alright?
SKY: A little out of sorts. I can’t really put my finger on it. May be hormones. May be life. Who knows.
DECKERMAN: Life is like that.
SKY: Our conversation last week really helped me understand you and your choices better
DECKERMAN: Good then explain them to me! Cause there are times I wonder!
SKY: As I understand it, you have a huge sense of duty or else a huge Catholic guilt complex playing. You are seeking depth. I am too.
SKY: You and I are finding some of that here. We both wonder about life and what is in store.
SKY: We wonder how we know if we are doing the right things and if we are making the choices we are supposed to make in this predestined life.
DECKERMAN: Yes and often life throws us a curve ball.
DECKERMAN: We try to orchestrate it and we try to make the changes in seeking happiness
DECKERMAN: then in the end—find that those didn’t work either.
DECKERMAN: So we (at least I am ) back to square one
SKY: But you gotta look at the gift we are enjoying in each other…in this new found relationship. We don’t know where it is going
SKY: I fear to even dream about that
DECKERMAN: We all need dreams
SKY: You said you didn’t want to be alone
SKY: But the thing is—I can’t make you any promises. For gosh sakes, we have not even met. There is chemistry, sure,
SKY: but the physical tension that comes with meeting a person and the chemistry of being present is not something we can count on.
SKY: I can’t be the one to catch you.
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