As I saw his screen name come on line, I got a slight shiver. My pulse quickened and then when I read his "Hi" on the IM block, I smiled and hoped he would make love with me. Now here I am of the retired set, and have been married to Enos for 53 years. Yet I am in love, in love with a man I met on the Internet.

No way, no way could it happen to me; no way could Grandma Edna do something that foolish. But I have, I am in love with this man, this man of the Internet. And oh my, when he says "hi" and he takes my hand and kisses it, I tingle, oh how I tingle.

Can this be happening to me, can this be real or am I just dreaming? Can someone I know nothing except for seeing them on line, chatting with them in the chat room and on an occasional IM, can this man really make me feel like this?

But Flora and I were talking the other day and she has had the same experience. We did not trade names, but I hope she is not in love with my man, for although I know we will most likely never meet nor shall I ever actually hear his voice, I dearly love him. And Flora said I am not in a minority, that there are others like me.

But a woman my age, a woman with five grown children, fourteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren, a woman who has been through it all, can a man like that make me sneak off by myself, or waiting until after Ed is gone, to sit at the computer and do things I have ostrasized other women for? And have the best feelings in the world? Could this really be happening to me?

Oh what a man he is, what a dear loving man. And all he has done is chat with me four or five times, and on each one of those times he has always been a real gentleman, never being rude, crude, crass or forward. Has it happened to you? Well it has happened to me and I don't know what to do!