This is a great reminder Scully, thanks.
An a related note: I had a male friend last year that struggled with an online "relationship". After almost a whole year it finally dawned on him that 18 cancelled or postponed trips from his online "girlfriend" (whom he'd never met, but felt was his soulmate) was probably a sham.
Through that year, this girl struggled with endometriosis that was incorrectly diagnosed as kidney stones, thus prolonging the disease being untreated and ultimately making her infertile. Because of these health problems, her hospital (she was a nurse) let her go due to all of her health-related absences and she lost her medical coverage. But it all worked out because daddy's rich and just paid cash for her household and medical bills while she laid on the couch for several months recuperating from the emotional and physical pain of realizing she'd never have children. In the meantime...her sister-in-law left her brother and their two kids, which in turn made him move in with my friend's online girlfriend because the brother had nowhere else to go. So she had children in the background all the time screaming and playing and doing homework. (Hmm...who's kids were they???) Also...her rich daddy was diagnosed with stage four terminal cancer and had to go through many bouts of chemo, radiation and surgeries and finally the family decided that he was to be pulled from all types of treatment in order to enjoy the last days of his life. The whole family then went to their home in Lake Tahoe to say good-bye and watch said rich daddy die out his last days in peace.
*deep breath*
It's even more laughable now that I write all this crap and can see it in black and white. My friend is a very smart man, but had not had much experience with the opposite sex and fell for this liar hook, line and sinker. In spite of it, he (finally) very gently broke up with her, just in case she was for real. (LOL!) But she continued to call, IM and email. I haven't talked to him in ages, so I don't know what came of it after that. I do know that after the 3rd cancelled trip, I was ready to fly to California and find the beatch and wrangle her to the ground. That is if she was a SHE after all. (Of course when I did a search on her, I came up completely emptyhanded.)