I guess I just got lucky. The first girl I ever went to see in Ukraine was in August 2001. I had returned from a trip with friends to Tallinn where I registered with an agency to hopefully just find a nice girl to show me around Tallinn and have dinner with. As it turned out my picture and profile was sent out all over the FSU and I started receiving letters and emails within a week of my trip when I returned home. As best I could back then and certainly not even coming close to knowing what I know now, I went through the process of elimination. Of the 600+ letters and emails I received there is no telling how many were scammers. I still keep in touch with a girl that wrote to me from Saransk Russia. She is a doctor. I had planned to see her but some doctor from San Fransisco was going to meet her in a few eeks and she broke off all communication with me because she just knew that was her sudba. Well things didnt work out in the first 15 minutes,but it was a little late for me when she got back in touch. Like I said we still keep in touch and she has never married some 7 years later.
The girl I went to see was a lawyer from Kharkov. The pictures she sent was about 5 or 6 years younger than she actually was,but still ok. She was a pretty girl and I knew that she wouldve made a great wife. Honest,humble,caring and had never not once been with a man. She was waiting to be married and I certainly respected her values and morals. I went to see her,but things just didnt click. I saw a very jealous side of her when I accidently got hooked up with an American guy from Great Neck Long Island NY and his girlfriend from Odessa. The girl I went to see was very rude and now I see that that was just the way she was. She was a much different girl than the girl from Odessa. The girl I went to see was very very well educated and certainly not flighty. Anyways to make a long story short I went back to see her sometime later and thats when I met my wife in the trainstation. It was a miserable 5 days I spent with the lawyer girl from Kharkov. All I could think about was the girl in the station and would she ever write back to me on the email address that I scribbled on a piece of paper. Lucky for me she did and we missed each other by only a few hours on my return back to Kharkov to bring the lawyer back home after a trip to Crimea. As it turned out the girl I met was from a village about 50 minutes from Kharkov. I did a little research on the lawyer a year or so ago and found out that she wasnt married. I would never call her not even just to say hi,but I do wish her the best and know that some guy will be very lucky to call her his wife one day. I've been married almost 5 years now to the girl from the trainstation and life is good. My inlaws are actually staying with us until August. On Sept 11th we will return back to Ukraine to see everyone again. Anyone that is going to be in Kiev at that time feel free to give me a shout.
