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TRUE Success Story: Tammy and Eric find each other on True.com

Love: It's Closer
Than You Think

By Paula Bakouris
TRUE Managing Editor
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Townville, SC, is the exactly the kind of town you picture when you think of small-town America.

It’s the kind of town that’s full of friendly houses, sprawling porches and neighborhood parks. The kind of town where everyone drives down the same streets, stops at the same post office and shops at the same market. With a population just shy of 3,800, it’s the kind of town where you can’t walk down Main Street without seeing someone you know. Or knowing everyone you see.

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So how was it that Tammy and Eric, both residents of this same small town, never once met face to face?

After all, they had so much in common! They were both single parents. They were both looking for love. And they lived mere miles from each other.

You’d think, in the tiny town of Townville, their paths would cross — and that they’d find love when they found each other. But it took TRUE to bring them together. It took TRUE to do what destiny couldn’t.

Tammy, a single mother whose children had graduated and moved away, was starting the next chapter of her life. She hung out with friends. She devoted herself to work. And she thought about her future. She had a lot of love left to give to the right person. She just needed to find him, or have him find her.

But how was that going to happen? Tammy wasn’t really into the bar scene. And, until now, she’d been focused almost solely on her children. Where should a single girl go to find love?

As it turns out, Tammy’s mom had the answer. She knew Tammy just needed a little nudge to get started. So she got the ball rolling – she started filling out Tammy’s profile. And then Tammy jumped in and finished it.

And then they both waited to see what would happen.

It didn’t take long for the emails, winks and matches to start rolling in.

“TRUE showed me lots of matches right away,” Tammy recalls. The result was plenty of interesting people and some great conversations, but not that big spark … not yet.

Not until that one fateful day when Tammy looked at her matches, and what she saw just melted her heart: She saw Eric.

“I fell in love with the soul behind his eyes … and his smile,” she says.

They spent some time getting to know each other, the way all new couples do. They exchanged information, they shared stories … learning more and more as they went along.

And that’s when it happened: “We finally told each other where we lived, and we both almost passed out.”

In a time where the World Wide Web regularly connects people who live halfway across the globe from each other, this time the Internet spanned what might be the greatest distance of all: the distance between two hearts.

They each feel like they've found their soul mate. They love spending time with each other reading, hiking, traveling and being romantic.

“We had our first date November 30, 2006, and we were married February 8, 2008,” Tammy happily exclaims. “Thank all of you – without TRUE I would never have met my soul mate or known TRUE love.”

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