At Least She Gets To Keep Her Last Name

FACEBOOK:A couple with the same name who found each other through social networking website Facebook are to tie the knot.

Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt, 20, was bored one evening last year when she put her name into the site and came across Kelly Carl Hildebrandt, 24. She sent the only other Kelly Hildebrandt, of Lubbock, Texas, a message and they became friends. Ms Hildebrandt, a student from Miami, Florida, said she believed the chain of events was "all God's timing". Her fiance described her first message to him, in April last year, as reading: "Hi. We had the same name. Thought it was cool," reports the Associated Press news agency. He said: "I thought she was pretty cute." Mr Hildebrandt admitted, however, that he had worried they might be related. Nevertheless, the two were soon in daily contact by phone and e-mail and he "fell head over heels" after visiting her in Florida. In December, she found a diamond engagement ring he had hidden in a treasure box on a beach. "I thought it was fun. I had no idea it would lead to this," Mr Hildebrandt said. The couple plan to tie the knot in October and have confirmed that they do not plan to pass their first names on to any future offspring.

More and more these days, people are meeting over the internet. Falling in love. Getting married. Seems crazy right? I am curious to see the divorce rate on these kinds of couples, but this isn't as crazy as you may think. On-line meetings is now as common as picking up someone in the frozen food section of the local supermarket. However, one thing that on-line meetings seem to do is let each individual be themselves, because at first, who really cares if they don't end up liking you? I mean you wont have to see them ever if you don't want to. Just watch out for the crazy stalkers out there. On the other hand, on-line meetings pose a problem. What if you do fall in love, but, that love is halfway across the country? Not being near someone can drive you crazy, I would assume. Relationships never start on Cloud 9 and sit there forever. Work is needed to be done by both individuals to make a relationship successful. That is hard to accomplish 3,000 miles away. How many issues do you think can be worked out by talking face to face followed by a simple hug. I tend to thank that most issues can be solved that way, unless they fester deep down to a point where the issue is irreconcilable.

As for the Kelly Hildebrandt's in the picture up there. I say good for them. He lucked out that she is an attractive girl and that Florida is relatively close to Texas (and that his parents gave him a girls name). Let's just hope they aren't related, which is a good chance they aren't since none of them are from Arkansas or West Virginia.