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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

The Perils and Pleasures of Online Dating: #1 Petra

Since September I've been single again and so have joined a multitude of online dating services:

Of the most interest has been my response from Russia.  The girls are stunning in Russia if I am any judge.

I have to assume from the beginning the existence of scammers.  I therefore do not lead these girls on.  I tell them how poor I am, hopefully not too over the top, but I can't believe a rational woman would not lend the words some credence.

These girls have obviously studied English.  That said, they are sometimes hard to understand.  Imagine, a girl that's hard to understand.

Gmail let's you respond to any email and but compiles them such that you end up with a string of letters in one email file.  But sometimes the sender sends a fresh email and the process starts over.  It can be hard to follow the chronology of the letters sometimes.  Hence the letters may occasionally be out of order. Whenever I spot a mistake I fix it.

That said I present authoresses long gone, changing names and deleting email addresses to protect the innocent.  That said I present to you:  Petra...

Hi,
You're cute!  I haven't found your profile and I usually don't talk to girls outside of Phoenix, but cute will make me step out of my comfort zone.  I'll make this email short.  Let's see if you're real or not.

Anyway, the ball's in your court now.  Serve it up!
Dave.

Letters From Petra

Good afternoon!
Tell as I can to you the reference? David it will be correct?
At me to appear the good mood when after our acquaintance I see your letter. And me it will be pleasant if we continue our dialogue more.
I think that you wish to learn a little about me, and I will try to tell it:
My name - Petra, this simple name. I was born 1983 on October, 5th.
My growth of 146 cm, my weight - 54 kg. These are good averages for the woman Russia.
I live in city Almetyevsk, this city is in the European part Russia, republics Tatarstan.
I hope that distinction ours of the countries will not be a hindrance for continuation ours dialogue.
I the cheerful and sociable woman, a unique minus, that I loneliness. But I wish to correct this position and now I to try our acquaintance for serious communication. I hope that you as to have serious intentions.
In a life I to try positive mood and as to behave in the form, therefore I 2 or 3 times a week try run morning.
I very much love animals and as I love the nature.
I have tried to tell to you a little about myself and I would like to ask that you have told about yourselves as.
It will be pleasant if you to give to me more your photo that will allow me to learn more you.
Now I will leave, and to wait your answer.
About respect Petra!
Letter 1 after I responded to her 'like'.

5’-5”  and 118 lbs.
What did I tell you!

Petra,
You could not be more beautiful.  You are as pretty as a girl can be!  Why does a girl like you write to an old man like me?  I send you my picture so you can see the mistake you have made.  Of course, to see you gives me a thrill.  To think if I were young again that I might hold someone like you in my arms and hug her close is a happy image to think about.

I hope you find the right man who will give you happiness and a full life.  I think I will keep your picture a long time to remember the beautiful women of Russia.  With respect and affection I bid you good-bye.
Sincerely,
Dave

Hello David!
It is very pleasant to me to see your letter today again. Thanks that you have answered my last letter, and now I can believe, that I for you liking and me it am pleasant. I hope that you have tried to learn me yesterday when I a few to tell to you about itself.
My dear David For me the age has no value the main thing that at the person is created in a shower that it is as the person. For me its ability to love and be favourite is the main thing only qualities which the man possesses. For me you not old, you skilled in all aspects of a life. You know much, are able to live, it is very pleasant to me as to speak with you. I think therefore that that we can be fine. The age it not the main thing, main that that arises between people. Hatred or love. After all as they say all age are obedient to love, and you very much like me.
I wish to tell little bit more about myself. My family very amicable. Mum and the daddy very much to love each other and live in marriage 23 years. As it pleasantly to realise, a unique minus in that that us only three in a family. At me is not present to undertake sister that there is a few grief. But in a life I am very sociable person, and on a life I have many friends. At least I think so, that at me it is a lot of them. Because each person meets me with a smile always.
I very sociable woman and on an extent of all my life, I like to conduct an active way of life. To take part in all actions.
And probably therefore my work itself to draw me to itself. I work the manager on sale of a children's food, it is very good work that is pleasant to me. Unique grief that for me not probably open-cast mine growth. And still I pleasure of mine work.
You know my city Almetyevsk not so big only 150000 persons. But I very much like to live here.
To a regret for all years of my life in this city I and could not find to myself the man who would appear for me the companion on a life, and I am lonely till now. And recently already loneliness simply to press on me, therefore I have addressed in search the man. I never was married and I do not have children. And still I as well as each person dream about creation a family, and that I will have nevertheless this feeling of love and to be favourite.
And consequently I have decided to address in search the Internet. I am very glad that we acquaintance, the truth our acquaintance for me was very difficult. First of all I created many profile from my country and it why that is closed, and then I have decided to create a profile from your country, and now we to get acquainted.
Tell for you really all well that we from different the country and different culture. It very much is pleasant to me, because now I can learn culture of other country.
Now I have tried to tell to you a little about myself about mine work, and as about my thoughts on creation the future family.
Tell more directly about itself and about the city. Probably you something interests to learn about me. Do not hesitate to set to me the questions. I with the great pleasure will answer you them. Now I will finish my letter, and to wait for your answer. And that you I am better to learn me to give to you my new photo. I wish pleasant day. I will wait for your answer. I hope, that you will not keep me waiting.
About respect Petra!



Petra,
I was happy to receive your letter today and so am writing back to you.

I am glad you don't find my age is a problem.  I don't mind that you are so very young.

After replying to your letter yesterday I went on the internet to find out more about Almetyevsk in Tatarstan.  Your town is fairly young and just a little older than I am. :)  I don't know a lot about Russia, but I have been there a long time ago.  When I was 17, I went with my family on a ship from Yokohama in Japan (where I lived in Tokyo for two years) and sailed to Russia.  Forgive my spelling I think it was Nakhodka where we first stepped onto Russia.  From there we rode the train a day and night then flew to Moscow.  I spent a week in Moscow and saw the Kremlin, the world's biggest bell and I swam in the world's biggest swimming pool.  If I make mistakes of geography, remember this happened 40 years ago.

Next we went to St. Petersburg known as Leningrad at the time.  I was in Russia above the arctic circle on the longest day of summer and I remember it never got dark.  There were students playing guitar and singing songs by a band called 'The Monkeys'.  I met only nice people on that trip and have good memories of Russia, then the USSR.

I am currently not employed in the regular sense of going to a job everyday and working for a company or a boss. Years ago I was a computer aided designer of houses for rich people and I played a banjo on the side for extra pocket money.  I liked playing banjo much better than designing houses so now I am re-learning the banjo in hopes of earning money that way.  The economy here has gotten worse and worse since Obama became president.  I got laid off of a job doing gardening and general labor for a rich couple because they were running out of money.  Since last Christmas I have been looking for work, but so many people are looking for work and even more now since health plan regulations.  I don't get any answers from so many job applications.  I figure banjo is as good a try as anything else.

So what do you like to do in your free time?  I like to watch movies.  I read books on history and science.  I am fond of books about Tesla.

I am tired now because I donated plasma today for money and I had crazy dreams last night about a long motorcycle trip with my parrot 'Ivy'.  
I hope you will write me when you have the time.  I like letters from you.
Sincerely,
Dave.

Author's note:  I'm missing an email.  That will happen from time to time as this 'relationship' happened a while ago.

Good afternoon David!
As it is much pleasant to see your letter and to feel more and more interest in me.
You much good person, and I to understand this that as you to concern me, and a few culture, and behaviour degree would be desirable even to study in me at you.
Mine dear I wish to tell that to me a lot of pleasure that you to find a photo from your childhood and mine dear I as I wish to tell that to me a lot of pleasure that you to write for me much about yourself and mine dear I many hope that we with you as we will continue dialogue.
You know you give me that that new in day. It is simply felt. It becomes easier to me to wake up in the mornings, and it would be desirable that that to make faster.
Even in my work I began to come is better, and passes put is better. It is pleasant to me simply much.
Usually in the morning I woke up in 6,30, and now I even to wake up in 6 morning, and it is good for me. As they say who begins day early, that to be in time much. And now I to have time to write for you. (Smile)
Tell and how there is a daily routine for you?
I to rise early in the morning to wash and do a small shower. That allows to wake up for me completely.
Then I to go in my work and it is in 8,00 morning. I have a small break in work with 12 - 13 hours. And the termination of my day - 17 o'clock in the afternoon.
But I can sometimes be late in mine work and it is a few grief. But nevertheless I to love my work and it is pleasant to me.
You know I would like to ask you about your day as it to pass and that you to do within day.
As I wished to make today small acquaintance for you. I have the best friend Irina. C it we are familiar very much for a long time, since small years. We together went to a garden, and went in school to one class. But the only thing university we were different. And still our friendship is and in today day.
Irina has found the happiness for a long time already and it is very happy.
It has fine children: the son and a daughter, and I many pleasure for them.
But nevertheless at that time when it in marriage, already we less dialogue, but nevertheless each days off I try to call on it.
We go sometimes to park, we pleasure the nature, and children to run and fun.
I would like to learn and probably you have that to the best friend and what you to do together? How it passes for you? I would like to learn it as.
Whether I do not know I have made correctly, but for Irina I yet did not inform about our acquaintance, but I think that nevertheless once I will speak it. But now I to feel that I have you as the friend and it seems to me that our communication allows though as that to make a secret or to tell that that personal. Even you can probably give to my advice in a life or I for you. You as to think it? How you to regard our acquaintance now for us? Who do I am for in the expert now?
At this moment at me the good mood and me would be desirable to leave about pleasant mood as.
I wish to give you my photo with mine friend Irina and I hope that you to me as to give your photo and a photo your friend? Well!?
I to wish you a pleasant spirit today and I will wait again to see your letter tomorrow.
About respect Petra!


Petra,
I'm glad you liked the pictures of me in my youth.  The girl in the one picture is my little sister who lives these days in New York North of New York City with her husband.  Her three daughters are grown up and the youngest is in college.

I have several friends that I see in music jams that I regularly attend.  I don't yet have pictures, but I will try to remember to bring my camera this week so as to get a few photos of my friends.

My usual day starts at about 7 or 7:30 when I get up and begin my exercises.  I usually exercise for about 30 minutes, but I hurt a muscle in my right side of my chest and it hurts so much that I have to limit my exercise until it gets better.  After my exercise I shower and get dressed then I go down stairs and get a cup of tea with cream and honey.  I often do some house work then I take my parrot Ivy up to my room and look at my emails for a job.  In the afternoon or evenings I often go to jams with my banjo.  I hoped to meet a guitar player looking to make music for money, but I don't think that will happen any time soon.

I was going to try to play banjo for money, but I need a better job if I am going to have enough money to visit you and bring you to America.

This week everything may change because I qualify to enter a free government sponsored school to learn to drive big trucks (18 wheelers).  Orientation for the school is this Thursday and I will learn the details about my classes. Most of the emails I get about job search are looking for truckers so I think I will be able to get a good job right out of school, maybe as soon as a month from now.  I don't think I told you yet that I have been a driver for a job before in my life.  My last year of high school I went to night classes to become an ambulance driver.  I did that for many years and I was able a few times to help save someone's life.  I still remember the time a little girl drowned in a swimming pool and we gave her respirations and heart massage and she lived.  I started university to become a doctor, but I got married and had a daughter and I quit school.  Don't worry about me being married. I divorced that girl 7 years later because she was not faithful to me.

As for your friend, I leave it to you whether to tell Irina about me.  I told my father about you.  He thinks you sound like an honest and a good girl.  I didn't show him your pictures yet but he wants to see them.
With respect,
Dave.

Good afternoon David!
As it is a lot of pleasantly for me to see your letter, to feel your care and simply to understand that I for you it is pleasant. Every day we to learn each other and we as if good friends. For all time that we I to feel dialogue with you simply that you the good person, and I would like that our communication could more development.
Know I will try to answer your most important question, that you ask, but I think my answer simply it is not pleasant for you.
I spoke with the manager the cafe Internet this morning, and asked about the program skype. On what have answered me absolutely unexpectedly.
One year ago, there was a small unpleasant case, when one woman dialogue with the man through video a chat. They long spoke, the woman was already all in tears, and suddenly she started to undress unexpectedly before video a chat. That has caused the big alarm in the cafe Internet. Adults and children were a full shock and who that has written next day the statement in police and informed about this fact. Then there was a court therefore, the cafe Internet received a heavy fine and as they could not work within 6 month, there was an interdiction for them.
Recently they to open again, but now they have stopped to extend such services. Often to come to the cafe Internet children to play the computer, and adults to use the Internet.
To me informed, that if we want dialogue through skype it will be better if I buy to myself the computer and then we can house dialogue as we want and that we want. And to me have given up in service skype.
Our dialogue allows us to open each other more.
You know today I would like to tell a little about village of mine parents and that as they to live there.
Since the daddy left on pension and they have moved to village in which they now to live and I many pleasure for them. Each days off I to go to my parents to help them on house work, and there I have pets. You know I very much I love pets, but I not to have their house because they should devote much time and it is impossible to leave them long lonely. And my work does not allow me to come always to one time and consequently I simply am afraid to get pets. But I very much love a dog and a cat.
You know at me there is a dream, that when I will have a family - the happy husband we will have a big dog as from a film about a dog «Bethoven» - a St. Bernard. Very big dogs but very much love people. Tell and you love pets can you love dogs or a cat? I wish to give you a photo from village of mine parents and to show to you a dog what to live at my parents.
I hope that it is pleasant to you as. Know at me is as a pleasant hobby - 1 season in a year. When comes to do summer I in a kitchen garden my parents a bed about flowers. That allow to make beauty in a kitchen garden. As in a kitchen garden we to put different plants vegetables on spring and to reap a crop in the autumn that the winter was easier to live. And how you it to live?
I would like to learn about culture of your country about that that you like to do and as there is a life at you there.
Now I will leave, but I would like to wish for you pleasant mood. And I hope for your fast reply. About respect Petra!


Petra,
I too am very happy when I check my email and there is a letter from you.  Over the weekend you could not send a letter and I was sad to miss your letters.

That is a cute kitten you are holding.  And of course you are very cute.  I can tell you are quite a girl.  You wear a little makeup but not too much.  I don't like girls who wear too much makeup.  They don't look real.  Yours just makes you look nicely feminine which I very much like to see.

You talked about the woman who took her clothes off at the cafe while on skype.  That sounds so crazy, but the world has many crazy people these days.  I will have to buy a web cam when you are getting your own computer. Let me know when you are close and I will save up the money.  I think talking with you and seeing you at the same time would be wonderful.

I don't know about a St. Bernard. they are enormous!  I prefer a medium size dog.  They don't eat as much and I like to take them with me when I run or go on road trips, but if it's important to you, ok.  I have almost always had a cat.  My dad has two cats, but they were already here when I moved back and they don't trust me yet. They used to hide all the time and now if they come within two yards of me, then run.  Soon I think they will trust me and I can pet them.

I have never had a lot of luck with plants.  I love vegetables and if you grow them I will gladly eat them with you. I like flowers too.  I should tell you, I can't eat raw onions.  When I was a baby my mom tried to start me on vegetables and I could not eat raw onions then.  Cut small and completely cooked I can eat them, but raw they make me sick.  I can't think of anything else I don't eat.  What about you?  Is there some kind of food you don't like or can't eat?

I look forward to your next letter, and the day when I can take you in my arms and hug you close.
Sincerely,
Dave.


Good afternoon David!
As it is a lot of pleasantly for me to see your letter, to feel your care and simply to understand that I for you it is pleasant. Every day we to learn each other and we as if good friends. For all time that we I to feel dialogue with you simply that you the good person, and I would like that our communication could more development.
As actually it is very pleasant that if I had own computer. If I would have own computer I think that we could increase simply our communication. I could write to you both in the morning and in the evening to learn each other more. I would think that it was pleasant to you as. To a regret I cannot buy the computer to myself, it is simply expensive to me. But if to go every day to the cafe Internet, and to write you it there is 3 dollar. That basically to collect this sum of a single whole purchase the computer will be cheaper for me. Nevertheless I hope much that once I can purchase the computer to myself and then we can this dialogue for us more and more.
Petra,
Sorry it costs so much for you to use the internet cafe.  If it cost $3 a day for me I could not write every day.  I could not afford it.

Tomorrow I go to orientation for the classes on trucking.  I very much hope that will change my life and I will in a month or so start earning a good wage and have a good job.

Yesterday I got an email from my daughter.  She said she was thinking about me and she loved me.  This was wonderful because in the past few years we have grown apart.  I asked her to send me pictures of her and my grand daughters who are twins.  She sent me several photos and my grand daughters are pretty young women. It was good to see them. I had not seen pictures of them for about 6 years.  Would you like to see pictures of my daughter and grand daughters?

I wish I could help you get a computer, then you have to get internet service at home too.  It is hard for my father to pay all the bills he pays with just social security as income.  When I get a job I will have to pay him back money he has lent me and for my share of these expenses.  I think money is not pleasant to talk about so I will stop.

I hope you have a good day.
Sincerely,
Dave.

Greetings my darling David!
I am glad to receive your letter for me. I have received admiration of that you have written to me. Each new letter from you to me brings pleasure and satisfaction. It is valid satisfaction as you became a part of my life now. Your letters are interesting and informative for me. In your letters I learn more about you, about your life. Each time reading your new letter I receive a vigorous charge of energy which raises my mood. I feel on work is better and day becomes not such boring and sad because your words please me since morning. I am grateful to you that you write to me.
You know yesterday I has decided to make a small important step for me, I have visited my mum and have told to it about ours with you dialogue. I did not know as it will react to it. Nevertheless it seemed to me, that it will be glad. All and has occurred. After I have told, that I have dialogue with the man through the Internet, she has a little reflected, but has then told, that probably it is normal during present time. Time of technical progress and technology. We have talked to it about you. I tried to tell all to it of nothing having missed and not having forgotten completely to transfer an image and lines of the man which became for me the good friend and the loved one. We spoke somewhere hour or two. I simply could not stop, as it was valid to me to tell about you interestingly. Mum was as in delight from my story. In the end she has added, that will be happy ours with you to friendship if I to it is happy. I in the beginning did not understand, that it had in view of. Now it seems to me, that I understand, that she wished to tell this offer. My darling, can solve nobody ours with you destiny except ourselves and only to us with you decides as to be further. Whether we with each other wish to support communication or we will stop it, only we can solve it and anybody another.
I do not wish to stop ours with you dialogue. You became very close to me. I know you throughout all letters which we wrote each other. During this time we exchanged the ideas, thoughts, emotions. Now I can tell, that in the world there is a person who understands me, a position of my life, intention which are close to its intentions. I speak about you my darling. I am happy, that you have appeared in my life. You are my dear to heart, you understand me and is always ready to listen, help, if I require your council. You the irreplaceable person in my life and I have with you pleasant dialogue. I am happy to it my darling David.
And now I am compelled to leave you, but I will return again to read your letter for me. Thoughts I will be with you. I wish you to spend pleasantly the day my dear.
With best regards Petra!

Petra,
How do you send me a nicer photo of you every time?  I like this one the best of all.  The result is that I cannot wait to hold and hug you.  I cannot believe how lucky I am that we are becoming two who love each other!

I think I will write you a second letter again today as I have to leave in a few minutes to go to another music jam with my banjo.  Have you ever thought about taking up a musical instrument?  I find making music is very satisfying and relaxing.  If you ever took up the guitar, we could make music together and that would be as much fun as cooking side by side.

Something to think about anyway.

I have to go now.  I will write again later this afternoon.
Love,
Dave.
Petra,
I was so tired today after going to the jam that I had to rest and eat dinner before writing further.  I hope this letter finds you well and that your mood is good.

For me, my mood is better on a day when you have written me a letter and when there is a picture of your smiling face and also your thin, cute body you are on my mind the whole day.

So now your mother knows about me.  Has she seen my picture?  Does your father know?  Have you told them that I respect you very much at the same time I am becoming so charmed by your letters?  I want them to know that I respect you and that if you give me your heart I will treat it gently and never hurt you.

I told you that I told my father about you.  Now he is always asking me questions about you.  'How long have you known this girl?' ' What kind of education has she had?'  'How can you be so serious about a girl so far away in Russia?'  I tell him you answer any question I ask and every time I feel you are honest.  This is the most important thing I can feel, that you are honest with me and that makes me feel so good about you.  

I just wish I could get on the next airplane to Russia and tomorrow I could be hugging you close to me, my hands stroking your soft hair against your beautiful skin.  That will be a wonderful day, our first day together.

Some day I will meet your parents and I will shake your father's hand and he will know then that I am honest.  I think men can tell that by a handshake.  And I will hug your beautiful mother if that is ok with her.

I wait anxiously for your next letter.
Love,
Dave.


Good afternoon mine dear David!
Today when I see your letter to me there is a lot of pleasure. You know for all these days that we are familiar with you our letters help us to learn each other more. And each letter bears in itself much new, and to help us to learn each other.
You know when I see your letter now in me there is what that feeling, for an instant there is an excitement, for an instant there is a pleasure. With a sinking heart waited for your letter. Pleasantly was surprised, when it has come. For one instant on my person there was a smile and from it feel happy. Greedy I get a grasp of each line of your letter not to pass any word and to understand sense of all your phrases. Your letter becomes for me the present holiday. I learn from it about you more and more. How your life what has changed and what remains on former proceeds? The letter the photo plays so important role, as. It for ever embodies our emotions, allows to express the most secret. After all in them are described, all smallest details occurring in a life of people. Therefore for me has great value each your letter. Therefore I each time ask you to give me your photo that I could learn as your life and that you do. I think that you to understand that you to me much important person. Mine dear I to see that you to receive news from your daughter. I that you to see much bad with it dialogue and mine dear I wish to tell that I would be a lot of pleasure if you to send for me its photo. I wish to tell that to me much interestingly to learn as it to look. I as wish to tell that to me much pleasantly that you to trust for me such important things for you and mine dear I to think that you should have dialogue more. I wish to tell that it a lot of grief when relatives to run up and very seldom to see each other. Mine dear I to think that you should do by the first steps to it. Because you should show that it is very important for you.
Dear David I would like to learn a little more more about you, that you like to eat. (Smile). After all as is known the way to heart the man to lay through its stomach. And consequently I would like to learn that there is your favourite dish.
I think that I well to prepare, it only I so think. And my mum when sees that I to prepare to smile too. I never to estimate my work, but it seems to me if you could try my pies that I to do in the Russian furnace, or the baked potato with meat, or simply rich soup. I would think that all it was pleasant to you if I could treat you my dish.
It seems to me as you as could treat me your dish. The man very good cook on kitchen as, unique grief that it to prepare very little. Tell and you like to prepare? Can at you there is a favourite dish, what you like to eat and prepare?
Probably you like to prepare or surprise acquaintances with art of preparation of meal? I wish to tell to you, that I love soup. And the soup most favourite for me is Borsh. I adore this soup since the childhood. Its gentle taste and pleasant aroma dement me. David, you know such soup? If is not present, I will tell to you as it prepare. Borsh - the same firm symbol of Russia, as black bread and a samovar. Russian culture and history are impregnated by spirit of this soup. And so I wish to write you the recipe of preparation of this soup: a small bone It take desirable with meat (better if it is beef, mutton, pork). Fill in with water after will begin to boil allow to boil 2-3 minutes, merge water fill in anew lead up to boiling and remove foam. Put on silent fire at 1-1,5 o'clock. When the broth will cook pull out a bone, meat small cut and add in a broth, a bulb throw out, salt to taste. We prepare refuelling: In a frying pan warm up sunflower-seed oil, add fat from a broth (accurately a spoon remove it from above) add small cut bulb and grated carrots? And a beet (gives the sated colour) extinguish to beautiful red colour. Further with refuelling: cut cabbage thin strips fall asleep in a boiling broth, then a potato cubes when the cabbage and a potato will be ready add all that was in a frying pan, 2-3 bell peppers, a bay leaf, dried greens (fennel, parsley), 1-2 items of a spoon of vinegar (on the fan, it it is unessential) allow to begin to boil exactly 1 time, close a cover and remove from fire. Before meal well if a Russian cabbage soup will stand at least mines 15. If you now prepare this soup I am assured, that you will grow fond of it for ever. It is a pity, that I can not write to you it is time to escape for the work more as my time is limited also to me again. I hope, that all at you is good. How your work? How your family? I'm fine. Know, that you are not lonely now and can rely in all on me. Write to me and do not forget me. I will wait for your answer.
To the following letter, Petra!

Petra,
I hope you will write to me every day you can until we meet.  

Your soup sounds very good and delicious.  I will be so happy when you can cook it for me.  Just two days ago I cooked some split-pea and ham soup.  We ate it for two days and I will freeze the rest for a later day.  I like every soup I have tried.  I like stews, chili, American foods, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese food and Italian spaghetti.  About every other month pop and I go out for fried fish.  This is one of my favorite foods, but I can't cook it at home because the hot oil smell is dangerous for my parrot Ivy.

I look forward to cooking beside you, you cooking for me and going out to dinner when we are finally together.  I very much look forward to being together.  I can hardy wait to hug you close and kiss your cheek.  What pretty cheeks you have.  I look at your pictures again and again and imagine what it will be like to hold you.  Do you think about holding me?

Today I am happy because I go to orientation for the schooling to learn trucking.  I like to drive and to be paid to drive all over the country sounds like a great adventure.  I will leave in just two hours.  Wish me luck.  

Many of the trucking companies allow a ride-along.  That means you could come with me and see the country with me. You could meet my daughter Katie (who is very close to your age).  I am sure she will like you.  You are very likeable.  My daughter Katie lives in Texas which is a very big state.  The part near the sea is very beautiful.

Although the soup pictures are looking delicious, I love the pictures of you.  You are so pretty.  I look at them over and over.  I will try to take some more pictures of me.  The camera takes better pictures outside and it is already so bright and sunny at 10 in the morning!  Maybe this late afternoon.

I will look for your letter first thing tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Dave.


Good afternoon mine dear David!
I do not know as you to concern today to my letter, but I wish to tell actually as there is all.
Today at me fine mood and me the pleasant dream dreamt. I do not know, whether to like you it, but today I would like to tempt a little you. Only therefore I give you today such photo. Today the pleasant dream dreamt me, it was a dream of a small meeting. Where there was a participation of two remarkable people. Today my dream was real in a dream. I so dreamt to descend in cafe or restaurant with my man. Today in a role of my man, in a dream there were you. We did a fine supper, it was at candles, then the pleasant melody has played, and I have not sustained, I have invited you to dance. I so do not have not enough partner to dance and this night in a dream it was pleasant. We turned and cheerfully danced, then during one moment I have turned to you a back. And when you to develop me the person to the person it was pleasant unexpectedness for me, you held a pleasant bunch of flowers. It was pleasure for me. Mine dear David now it becomes a shame to me, but nevertheless I so was very glad. Mine dear David today all the morning long, since the moment as I have woken up I all thought of you. And I have decided to go faster to see your letter to write to you.
I ask, understand my letter correctly, I have simply told to you today my dream what it was pleasure to see you. But I now have a question for you, you dreamt about me?
Mine dear I to see that you to worry concerning that much that I to tell about ours with you dialogue to my parents and my darling I wish to tell that you simply as the most enamoured schoolboy to speak for me. My darling I wish to tell that I to tell about you all mine mum and it is much happy for us and she to tell what we with you not to offend each other. Mine dear I as wish to tell that I to tell all that that you to speak to me. Mine dear I as wish to tell that to me a lot of pleasure that your emotions to overflow smothering and you very much to wish to come and see me already. Mine dear I wish to tell that I would be a lot of pleasure to it as But I am assured that it when or to occur.
Now I think of you and when I will leave my thoughts is about you really much. I very much wish to know that you to answer me, and I will wait much your answer.
I hope, that after mine the letter at you will be today pleasant mood!
Yours faithfully, yours Petra


Petra,
I wish you will visit me in my dreams, but it has not happened yet.  In my dreams I often have a task to perform and it takes all night with me trying to get from one place to another.  I think this is symbolic that I am anxious to get to you and hold you in my arms.  I'm so glad to receive your letters.  They make me very happy.

I must admit I do not consider myself a good dancer.  When I was a teenager my older sister Susan came upon me from behind while I was dancing and she laughed uncontrollably :(  Since then I have been a little scared to dance.  Later I had a girlfriend and we went to a bar to dance.  The style of dancing was called line dancing and the steps are a bit complicated.  I missed a step and the girl punched me in the arm to say try harder.  The girl in a cowboy hat next to her said "That's it.  Hit him again!"  I was embarrassed.  I will be happy to try and dance with you, but maybe I will want to get to know you in person a little while before I will be confident to dance.  I hope that is ok.  Before my sister laughed at me, I used to dance in high school and my dates never complained.  In Japan girls were happy to dance with me.  It was later that my sister laughed and I was in my 20's when the girl punched me.  I hope this does not disappoint you too much.

I will enjoy giving you flowers.  I like to see a girl holding flowers.
Thank-you for another nice picture.
Love,
Dave.


Good morning my charm David!
I do not know, that yesterday have found on me, but I really wished you to tempt a little, I think, that it because I envied those people who in the street go in steams. They going also walk together, I wished to share it with you, but could not. Mine dear, David when I looked at enamoured couples I as very much wanted that with me nearby during this moment there were you. Because now for me you became very much the loved one, I think, that I can tell to you everything, that is created at me in a shower. That I want and I wish. I think, that you will understand me. But nevertheless excuse me that I at the past we wash the letter tried to do temptation for you.
My darling I too very much love you also I wish to tell that I you became for me meaning of the life and my darling I wish as to tell that I am very glad that you to eliminate a problem. My darling I to read your letter and I to feel as your blanket of love and care to shroud me. Your love and your care for thousand kilometres are lovely to feel mine simply I. My darling I wish to tell that you very lovely and at the same time very courageous person. My darling I wish to tell that you to correct problems and at the same time you to write for me such touching letter. I love you more than my life. My darling I wish as to tell that I to be from you so far but when I to read your letter I simply to feel that your heart to fight in one step with mine. And my darling I wish to tell that I cannot simply live without your letters. They for me as the most sweet medical My darling I love you also I wish to tell that I am ready to repeat and repeat it if only my darling it would help to appear in your embraces and to feel your sweet kisses the most gentle and at the same time strongest hands.
You know yesterday I thought of you much and did not know as you will behave today. And still I thought and waited that you will write to me, after all we already are for each other.
It is pleasant to know, that the person to whom my destiny is not indifferent, the person it is important to them to know, that with me exists, that I do! Probably, you to me do not feel anything. And I live your letters, I do not live more precisely, I exist, because a life for me now too loud word. Many do not understand me. Ask, what I have found in you?! Well, and you simply like me. It is interesting to me with you.
In my life I saw a little and felt care of. Simply all who could care of me, have been very engaged in by the affairs, and I at all was not necessary to the rests. It was necessary to do without care, I even felt a little lost when received from you such kind letters! I on the present did not know what to do! I have very much become puzzled and was frightened a little. Anybody, never concerned me so well, as you! And I am very grateful to you for it! You are from me for thousand kilometres, and is closer than you for me there are no people. Sadly, that so happens on light, and it is joyful, that miracles in this world happen not only in books! My angel the keeper has not forgotten me as it seemed to me earlier, the kindness you have woken in me other person - better, more kindly and more happily former! So it would be desirable to tell these words to you personally, but silly, mere words will not explain to the full my relation to you. My eyes when I will look in your eyes will more clearly tell to you be not upset, if this my letter little bit sad seemed to you, I will not forgive to myself if I will spoil to you mood. Simply understand my condition. Round me there were people, but I was lonely in a shower, and now I have a person to whom I am not afraid to prove to be such what I am. Huge to you for these thanks! I am absolutely free! If there will be questions, necessarily write, I with pleasure will answer them!
I would send you the kiss, but the technics is not has reached such level :). But nevertheless I wish to give you the most pleasant now, that I can give. My photo, and I hope that it to give for you weight emotion and a pleasant positive.
I will wait much your answer.
Write necessarily my darling! With impatience I will wait!
Yours Petra

Petra,
Thank-you for your letter.  I was not sad because your love comes out of the letter and I feel as if you are loving and hugging me with your words.  I love that you send me a new picture with each letter.  It is not as good as actually holding you, but when I look at the pictures, I feel closer to you.

Yesterday I did something I have never done before.  I got a book on how to learn Russian.  I started to try and learn your alphabet and the sounds of Russian words and I think this may be one of the hardest things I will ever try to do.  I correct myself.  It looks as if it will be as hard to learn Russian as it was to learn Japanese when I was 15.  I checked at the library and there are CD's I can borrow so I can hear the words pronounced rather that read them and guess.  This will be fun and hard at the same time.  I look forward to when we will skype the first time and I can try some new words out with you.

The second result is that my respect for you that you have learned English so well and can write me such beautiful letters has grown.  You must be a very smart girl to do this and for me a smart girl is so much more attractive than one who is just cute. But you are very cute too!  The sad part is that it makes me all the more crazy to meet you and give the first hug.  When I imagine that hug and maybe a kiss, I want it even more.

Sveedahneeyah sweet
Petra

Good morning my favourite David!
I am happy to receive your letter again. Early in the morning has woken me today the sun. Light from my window fell directly to me on a pillow and I have woken up from a solar beam. As day is fine, thinking about you my darling. I miss on you and constantly I think of your letters. You as always cheer up the letters for me. Here and today, having read your letter, my mood became even better than was. It is sincerely grateful to you for it.
My darling I wish to tell that to me a lot of pleasure that you to write for me and my darling I wish to tell that I would be a lot of pleasure if we with you could dialogue on Russian. My favourite I wish to tell that I to estimate that that you to wish to study Russian. My favourite I as wish to tell that I was a lot of pleasure layers we with you could see and speak sometime each other greeting words on Russian. My favourite I wish to tell that it to look much romantic. 
You know how terribly to wake up in the morning and to understand that you embraces nobody, that nobody will wish you kind morning!!! That you in the whole world one and not to whom you not to console, understand, fondle such sensation! But I in general on the nature very strong and likely very few people saw, that I cry or that I swear for a life as all represent me the optimist, the purposeful girl and that which always achieves that wants! Yes I can and really such, but today for long time I began to sob simply, as the little girl! I have got tired simply that all men which surrounded me, me simply did not understand! But now you have appeared in my life and I have understood, that I love you, simply I love. I put in our relations all myself because I love and I want, that you were that man who is necessary to me which will not bring and will not betray. About our acquaintance it is possible to tell long and about our relations! Simply for today I have understood, that actually I love only you and such man as you I will not meet never, such adventurer who is afraid of nothing and is known by you to me remind me, we are very similar! Why I so confidently speak about ours with you to love only because looking at kilometres we communicate also conversations on us are conducted constantly. It is not simple mere words, these are words filled with sense, words of the loving person, which without mind from you. Most insulting it that we now not together. To me your life is not indifferent. I want, that in it there was a place and for me. People always are afraid to admit, admit the feelings to the favourite person, and I am not afraid, because I know, that you too love, love as sincerely as well as. I am happy, that this fine feeling is in me.
You - the most good, light, kind, that happen with me in my life. Also you know, from it to me it becomes easier. I tell all to you what happens with me and have forgotten to ask, and how your affairs, David? I hope, what at you everything is all right? 
Now I need to wait, wait for your answer only. On this fine note I send this letter to you the darling.
Fascinated you
Petra

Petra,
It was a strange night for me last night.  I went to sleep thinking of you so that you might come to my dreams and we would be together like your dream.  But it did not happen and I awoke in the middle of the night crying.  Many tears fell on my pillow because I ache for you.  I hug my pillow close to my chest and imagine it is you, but it is such a poor substitute.

When I think about you so many times through the day, I wonder how I will be able to bring us together.  I went to the Arizona Work Force yesterday and spoke to a counselor about finding work or going to trucking school.  I will start a new program on April 21.  For two weeks I will be tested for my skills, learn new computer skills, job interviewing and evaluating for the best school if they think I need it to get a good job.  I am hopeful that this will help me find a good job, but it is so slow and I want you in my arms today!

You have changed my life.  I am more motivated to exercise, I'm trying harder to get a job, practice banjo, everything makes me think about you and how can I get you into my life more and sooner.

Although this time is hard for me and I think for you, I have been through many hard times in my life and one day they are always over and a new time starts.  Some day we will meet in Almetyevsk or some place close and we will touch and this waiting time will be past and a new time will start for us.  I just have a good feeling that this will be so.  This makes the waiting more tolerable, when it is over it will be like when I was a child and finally came Christmas and new toys.  Do you celebrate Christmas in Russia?  They do in Japan and many other countries.  When I hold you it will be like Christmas only better.  It will be a gift given from each of us to the other.
love preekrahsniv padroogah,
Dave.

Petra,
I wonder if you have access in Russia to Google Maps.  At this moment I am looking at an aerial view of Almetyevsk so close that I can see buildings and houses.  It makes me happy.  Although I can't see you I think "Maybe my dear Petra is in this building or that and she is sleeping.  She is there and knows I am thinking about her and I am hoping she is ok."

If you can Google, let me know and I will tell you a Phoenix landmark, how far I am from it with the direction and you can see the building where I am sleeping and know I am trying to dream of us together.  If you want you can tell me of a park or some famous building near by and I will be looking at a picture that you are in the size of a grain of sand.  Is that too crazy.  People in love sometimes get a little crazy.  A little crazy does not do any harm I think.
Спокойной ночи дорогая Petra,
Dave.
PS:  I translated Good night dear Petra with Google translator because my dictionary is small and it didn't have 'dear' or 'goodnight', then I thought why not translate the whole letter with it.  I have no idea if it works well.  If you think it says something unkind like I would not say, then it does not work because I would never say something to harm the love that we feel for each other.  But maybe it will be a tool to help me learn Russian and you to learn English.  Let me know please if it works.  Again I studied Russian today.  I will try to learn Russian for you.
Dave.

Greetings my pleasure David!
So it is glad, that you have written to me my darling. How are things going with you? strongly I miss on you. There is no your dialogue and your lovely words for me. So laziness to me to be engaged in any affairs, as thoughts absolutely about other, about you mine dear David.
My darling I want to tell that to me a lot of pleasure that you to write for me and my darling I as to see that you to love me and my darling I much as I want to tell that to me a lot of pleasure that you to write for me such words and my darling I want to tell that I would be a lot of pleasure if we with you could tell for each other these words face to face and my darling I want to tell that I as you very much I like and ятак to suffer much at night, I to cry and much to think of you, I as to embrace the teddy bear and to think that I to embrace you.
Today I look sleepy because has not slept last night. Simply I could not fall asleep. All night long it would be desirable to talk to you to calm the thoughts, but only I with you was thoughts, and itself laid in bed and did not know as on faster to fall asleep, today again to see your letter for me. And here I here and you too with me in this letter. Your letter has pleased me, as I understand, that you answer me with the reciprocity. I to it am madly happy, as thought, that can the letter I will frighten you, but now all is good also I so is glad, that our feelings are mutual. I have started to write to you about the attachment to our letters. I could do nothing with myself. You really like me, my feelings to you are real. I cannot forget about you. It not any inclination. It is more than simply inclination.
It is impossible to get used to this feeling. I also do not wish to get used to it. I look in a mirror and with a pain I notice easy strokes of changes which imposes on me time. Yes, I young and beautiful. Only why, why I am compelled to spend the best years of the life for melancholy and sad expectation of happiness? I think, that you such man who can present to me happiness and are simple calm my loneliness which has now captured me.
So it is fine to love you. All around fades with quivering delight and expectation something. So it is sad and it is sad on a shower because I can not expect the future and learn, that us with you expects. I love you my dear. I with hope expect, when all melancholy washing will pass also I will see your eyes shining for pleasure in which I will understand, that I am necessary to you. I am not capable to think more during this moment of what except you. I never thought, that I can ever grow fond of the person from other country, but you an exception to which I am mad are happy. I as understand, that the love on distance cannot exist eternally. I think, that you and perfectly understand it. Heart without restraint fights for excitement. It seems to me, that it now will jump out of a breast and will escape. So strongly I feel you my darling. The head goes around from overflowing emotions.
You so are necessary to me now. I wish you pleasant day my darling. I wait for your letter to feel pleasure from your gentle words.
With love
Petra

Petra,
Thank-you for your letter.  Your love always comes through as do I wish my love goes to you.

I am sorry you did not sleep well last night.  We both are so sorry to be sleeping alone.  I think when you fall asleep in my arms we will both sleep deeply and well.  I will be your teddy bear.  You will be my pillow.

I must leave soon to go to a job fair.  There will be many companies who are looking to fill jobs, looking for people to fill these jobs.  Wish me luck.  A good job could help to make the time so much shorter for me to come and see you. Sooner for me to run my fingers through your pretty hair and pull your lips to mine.  This will be a moment to live forever in my thoughts.

I have only a few more minutes before I must leave, but I will write again later this afternoon.  
Love,
Dave.

Petra,
I went to the job fair and I met many people from many companies looking for new employees.  I bet I walked 4 kilometers between the parking lot and all the companies.  I wore fancy black leather shoes and my feet are so tired I don't want to move.  As soon as I finish writing I need to visit their web sites and try to get a job.  One company there was a trucking company and they said they would send people to trucking school for free.  I am not sure I believe them because I have been to the trucking school they use and it is very expensive.  But I will find out tomorrow afternoon at the school.

All the time at the job fair I was thinking of you and how much I want a job now so I can visit you.  I feel that is when we can satisfy ourselves that this romance is truly possible.  I think it is possible or I would not be changing my life to prepare the way I am.  I feel almost like a different person.

After I came home, I was tired, but I put in an exercise DVD I got from the library.  It's called 'Banish Fat Boost Metabolism' and it's a 40 minute aerobic workout.  It is so hard that before I could only keep up with half the exercises or I had to do them slower to get through the whole 40 minutes.  Today I got through about 80%. You motivate me!  My lunch is half vegetables now.  It used to be 1/4 and not every day.  Thank-you for making me a better person.

I hope you will sleep better tonite.  I will try again to dream about you.  I think it will not happen until I can skype with you and my eyes will see you move.  Then maybe you will come into my dreams and maybe you will even kiss me.  Not as good as when we meet in person, but better than no dreams of Petra.

I am so tired, but I need to visit some web sites of jobs so I will end here.  Sleep well my darling, I love you so much.
Dave.

Petra,
Would you like to chat?  I found that we are 11 hours apart and I set my alarm for 1:30 PM Your time 2:30 AM my time.  It would be almost like being on Skype.  Just no voices.  Or when you email me, let me know what time you get on line and I will set my alarm for our next opportunity.  :)
Love,
Dave.

Petra,
I can't stay awake any longer.  Love you!
Dave.

Hello my favourite David! :).
I hope, that you wait till now my letter for you. I regret, that could not write to you earlier. I waited your letter for me. I do not represent, as it is possible to live without your letter, but worst of all to realise that you not with me. I thought that you have written to me and at last I have read your letter for me. Your letters are necessary for me as I constantly remember you, about my love. 
Favourite I wish to tell that I so a lot of pleasure that you to write for me but my darling I and not to understand why you to me not to send to a photo. I day in day to try to send you a photo and you simply to ignore this moment as though it and it is necessary. I not that not to understand you constantly to write for me as you to spend the time for your work but you and not to speak for me the important words, words of love varnishes. I not to understand that to you to occur. Or you to think that I to show the initiative to that what to get acquainted with you and only therefore I should do all for this purpose what to achieve you??? YES there is nothing I will not do it. Eventually you that who such? The girl or the man? Whether you should achieve my caress? You the spoilt person and I wish to tell that I not when I will not do any more a step on a meeting to you if you not to apologise before me. I wish tell that I cannot to suffer it already simply. I to try to write for you about love and tenderness for this purpose what you to understand that I very much love you, and you in the turn what to do? You simply to ignore my words. I to ask what you it to explain all to me!
I understand, that your feelings to me are very strong also my feelings too are strong to you. I miss on you. I do not have not enough man's caress, your caress the favourite. I want, that we with you were together and loved each other. I wish to see you and to embrace.
David, I love you, in my heart only you live also your love. I love you, I will love you, and you always will be in my love, my life, in my heart which is opened only for you. David, I think of you, and I wish to be with you. I hope, what you do not doubt also you is assured of the feelings? I am assured of your feelings, I know, that I searched in the life and I have met you my dear and I am proud of you. 
I miss on you my dear. The love forces me to think only of you, to dream of our future. Each minute spent with you in your letters, soon leaves in the past, in the sweet memoirs, forcing to shudder heart and soul. I very long searched, not knowing, that I search. It seemed, I had all for usual existence, but I all the same waited for something from destiny, that it will throw to me a happiness particle. I wandered on unknown me to the world, dreamland or is simple the feelings which are rushing about in the disorder. But in the wanderings I have found at last true. Now I have you most expensive in this life. And I do not wish you to lose, lose that I with such work have found.
There is such belief: «occurs Nothing simply so, happens nothing vain». Means, you in my life a guiding star which is lighting up my life, reserving the long laid trace in a heavenly kingdom, a kingdom of stars on which I will follow to the destiny. Conduct me in the kingdom, a love and happiness kingdom. And what such happiness? It when you near to the favourite person. With you I wish to be. I very much love you. We related souls. You my half which so did not suffice me.
My life without you is boring. But I know, that you will make it better when we with you will be together. In my heart warmly which will be stored for you and to wait for you. I will look forward your answer. I hope, that my letter delivers you pleasure and a smile. I send you the gentle kiss.
With love and respect
Petra

Petra,
I missed you.  I tried to do a chat.  I will keep trying.
Bye,
Dave.

I tried so hard to chat with you.  I'm so sleepy to be up at 3:00 in the morning.

Petra,
Do you ask for an apology?  I don't understand what I have done, but I beg for forgiveness my love.  I think of you only.

I sent you a picture a few days ago and you didn't mention it, so I will send it again.
Dave.

It was a very low quality selfie I am not going to include in this blog,
Dave.

Hi, favourite David!
It again I. And again you in my dreams. And again I alone with itself, with the thoughts. And again you in them. And we with you together. And to us it is good. I embrace you strong-strong. I consider, that sincere embraces should be strong, as well as my feelings. Those light feelings which I test to you. As to me it is pleasant, that you with me in my dreams! In them we do not leave. Also we do not gather! Because we spend the most fantastic and unforgettable minutes to them together. Let even you not with me. But the finest thoughts on you give me belief. Belief that we will be together. Only you and I. And anybody around.
My darling I wish to tell that to like me dialogue with you but my darling I much as wish to tell that I would be much glad if we with you as to continue ours with you dialogue. But my darling I wish tell that I cannot to write to you because I will go to my parents in village. My darling David I will be as much to miss on you and to think of you because you became for me very expensive person much. My favourite I as will send regards to my parents from you. Favourite I wish to ask what you not to be upset because I to arrive on Monday and I many hope that you already to write for me yours the letter, I will be very glad to read it. I love you!
I did not doubt seconds your relation to me. You are always sincere and fair with me. You try to be lovely and gentle. I see it under your lovely letters. We with you the correspondence gives to me pleasure. I like to read that you write to me. Each time you find thoughts to write to me about the spent bottom. It is pleasant to me to read it. I am grateful to you for your care of me. But you very much do not suffice me. I only represent you with me nearby, but it anything in comparison with if you were with me now.
My darling, to me would be desirable to tell to you all gentle words, looking in the face to speak about pleasant, but for the present not absolutely me controllable experiences. Experiences in general have arisen not clearly whence, but I am assured only of one, that they are and they are connected with the advent of you in my life. I am grateful to destiny and the God for you. Me breaks off in shreds of that very much I am afraid to lose you. You to me are madly expensive. The person in the life itself chooses to itself people for dialogue or forwarding time. The destiny to me has presented you, the person with whom to me it is not simply easy and good, me warmly, even knowing that we at present yet together. Communicating with you, I simply forget about everything, I have a rest, I relax, I am am shrouded only by your "aura". It so, seems to me, pure and drawing, that as soon as we begin our dialogue, I simply leave in other world. In my life I very much do not have you. I can share with you private world, the thoughts, experiences, impressions. I am grateful to the destiny, that now you have appeared in my life such person. I very strongly do not have you for which I could work for the sake of which I would like to live of which would like to care. You do not suffice me, I always wish to be near to you. I perfectly understand, that occurs to me. I so would like to press you to myself, to embrace strong-strong, to touch with the hands your hair, to touch and stand with sweet of your gentle pink lips. I, really, wish to touch them. This uncontrollable desire does not allow to me to live easy, I cannot collect myself in hands. To me so to like, that I on you miss. I wish to wake up every day with thought on you, I wish to miss even more and every evening I wish to go to bed with thought only about you, my lovely man. Only you managed to force to test me love to each other. To me it is very good with you, David!!! Madly I miss on you!!!
David, I only yours. Forever. I love. I with impatience wait for ours with you of a meeting.
Your princess
Petra

My princess
Petra,

I like that, for you are my princess.  You are the girl I believe in above all others.  How happy I am that you wrote before going to your parents for the weekend.  I used to love the weekends, but now the weekends mean no Petra.

I went to the library and I got a CD 'Get Talking Russian'.  It is good I think.  They start with one or two words, then they make a small sentence, then a longer one.  There is no book with it and Russian words have so many sounds all pushed together to make my mouth hurt to try and say them.  Long words in English are short and short words in English have 10 sounds and my ears cannot hear them all.  But I put the CD on as I want to go to sleep and I am hearing how you sound when you're not talking to me and it is beautiful.  To fall asleep listening to the sounds you make!  I love you so much I think of you with everything else I do in the day.

Yesterday's letter I thought you were mad at me and I'm still not sure if you really were or why.  I sent you a picture attached a different way to my letter.  Did you get my picture?  Do you get any of the pictures I send? I keep all the pictures you send me.  I put them in a folder on my computer and I look at them when I don't have a new letter from you to read. When I thought you were mad at me I thought 'Next letter she will break up with me and how will I be happy again?'. You are so much a part of my life now, such a good part of the day when I look in my mail and you are there.  Thank-you for this happiness.  Thank-you for the beautiful frustration of not having you, but wanting you in my arms.  I feel more alive than I have for years and years.  My life has a purpose now, to get healthier and to find a good job so I can visit my Petra and hold her close and some day marry her and never have to let her go.  Before you I did not want to have any more children, but to look at a baby girl or boy and to see your eyes and smile looking back at me, I am not afraid to think of this, my new family with Petra, children, a dog and a cat.

Between staying up half of last night hoping to chat and then not succeeding, and tonite up at 4 AM because of thoughts of you and worrying that you may be upset with me I am going to be a sleepy boy today.  So I bid you sleep well tonite Princess Petra when your world on the other side of the world is ready for bed.  Did I tell you that you are 11 hours later in the day than the time here?  One more hour difference and you would be exactly on the opposite side of the world and yet we are lovers.  You are farther away and at the same time closer to me than any other girl on the planet earth.  How crazy, strange and beautiful life is with you and I here on this little ball in space.
Your loving man with every breath and heart beat,
Dave.

Greetings my gentle David!!!
I understand your feeling my darling. I wish to be with you nearby, not to release you from myself. I cannot wait more. I cannot constantly go to the cafe Internet to write to you. I recollected how many we with you already have gone through in ours with you letters, that we have learnt all about each other. I never thought of to trusting you as the person which loves can speak such remarkable and gentle words what are spoken by you to me my beloved. You the finest man whom I met. Your love pure and sincere. By means of you I have learnt, that the present love means. You have turned all my life. I any more do not wish to come back by the old life. I wish to begin with you all with a blank leaf. I wish to create with you our happy family. In my thoughts only good memoirs on you my favourite. But I do not want, that I still had only thoughts on you. I wish to be with you nearby. To live for the sake of you, to love you.
Today since the morning I left on walk and have looked at the world surrounding me. I have reflected on what future will be at us with you. This day me has forced to think, and what will be further in ours with you relations? Certainly it is impossible to live only one day, it is necessary to suspect before, that expects us further, to make the plans. I do not wish to waste time in empty as it easier then not to return. Such what we now we already have more to become never, it is necessary to rejoice to this moment and to rejoice to that at us with you good relations and we love each other.
My darling I wish to tell that to me a lot of pleasure to see your letters and my favourite I wish to tell that I to miss on you much. I thought of you much. My favourite I as wish to tell that I represented ours with you the first meeting much. My favourite I wish to tell to you as I to myself it to represent on these days off. My darling I thought that when I to come to you you to meet me at the airport, I to go to you on a meeting then I to throw bags and faster to run in your embraces, but my darling when I was very close to you you unexpectedly to rise on a knee to get from a pocket a red box in which to be a wedding ring, to open it and to suggest me to become your wife. My favourite I wish to tell that it would be the happiest moment during my life.
You really fine romanticist. I like to read your letters. They are filled by feelings and emotions which you express me the love. It really seems a fairy tale in which we take part with you my favourite. You the fantastic prince, and I your princess whom you rescue from loneliness. I with pleasure the tonic your embraces opened for me and your sweet kisses. Your letters show me your love. I value to it and I appreciate each instant of ours with you of happiness.
Your sweet love 
Petra

My Princess Petra,
Oh how happy I am that the weekend is over!  I awoke at 4:45 in the morning so dark in my room I walked into a wall on my way to the bathroom :).  No injury.  I turned on the computer and now it is 5 AM and I see a letter from you.  The weekend is over and I have a letter from you! My heart is singing, Petra!  My Petra, how are you this wonderful day?

Yesterday, I was thinking of you.  I laugh to myself.  When do I not think of my Petra?  I think of you all the time.  But I was visiting web sites for the best prices on air travel trying to find out how much money I will need to be in your arms.  At first I could not find a price from Phoenix to Almetyevsk airport, so I type into computer 'airports close to Almetyevsk' and keep trying airports to see if they will work.  Finally, Ufa airport worked, but this is about 300 kilometers from Almetyevsk. Anyway, the price I don't remember exactly was about $1300 to go and return.  That is not so much money.  If I can just find a job, that is not much money to be able to hold my dear Petra.  To hold, to kiss, to squeeze you to me.  This is so little, I can do this.  I can find this money somehow.  If I have to take a job for low wage, I will find this money to be close to you my dear Petra.

Another beautiful picture of my dear Petra, and you are next to a Christmas tree.  So you do have Christmas in Russia. To have my princess Petra next to me when I wake up, every day will be Christmas.  This is not a condition for me to love or not love you, but do you have religion?  I am the grandson of a Protestant Methodist minister on my mother's side and I believe in god.  God has brought me you.  I love you if you believe in God or not, but we should know as much as we can about each other, so I ask.  Do you believe?  My father does not believe and I love my father too, so I say this is not more important than my love for you.  I just think we should ask the big questions now.

I will keep researching air travel to see if I can find an airport closer to Almetyevsk.  I know that there is an airport right next to Almetyevsk, and I'm sure there are busses that go to Almetyevsk from Ufa airport.  I will soon know the way to you if I have to walk and swim and walk. :)  We will be together.  I feel this as I feel my heart beat in my chest.  It goes Petra,Petra, Petra.  You talked about me bringing a small box with a ring to the airport.  That is a beautiful dream, but when I give you a ring it will have the biggest diamond I can buy and that would mean many more months before I can come see you.  I hope you can understand that I cannot wait longer to hold you.  I will marry you as soon as I can my darling.

Now that I have written to you I can relax and maybe sleep another hour.  I don't sleep the same since falling in love with you.  I wake up more often in the night.  I think about you.  Then I try to sleep some more.  I hope you are well.  I hope you are having a good day on your side of the world, while I am sleeping.  Have a very good day my dear princess Petra.
With love and tenderness only for you,
Dave.

Petra,
I miss you.  I hope you are well.  I understand that it is expensive to go to the coffee house to write to me every day.  I will wait patiently for when you can write.
Love,
Dave.

Petra,
Today was hard.  While I understand that it may be hard for you to  write every day of the week, when I didn't get a letter I was sad.  I completely understand.  I will try not to hunger for your letters.  I will try not to be sad if you don't or can't write.

I worried today that you were sick, or that you were angry with me again.  I am sad to think that you may be angry sometimes with me when I have never had any reason to be angry with you, never one second.  Every letter has been pleasure for me because I am so happy to love you.

I wonder if you are angry because I said I will not bring a wedding ring.  My plan is that I will travel to Russia to meet you. And there will be no pressure on you to be in love with me.  We can meet and if you find that I really am too old and you have second thoughts, I can go back to Phoenix.  I believe that to truly love someone is not to want what I want.  It is to want what you want, what will make you happy.  My love for you is and will always be for you.  And I hope you decide upon meeting me that it is good.  I want our happiness so much.  I hope you understand this above all things.  I want you to meet me and to kiss me and all the things that we've talked about to be a love so true.

My plan is that I will then return to Phoenix and save money to bring you to me.  I will buy an airline ticket that is round trip with an open return date so if you decide someday you don't like Phoenix or you just miss your home in Russia so much you need to visit, you will be able to go back to the life which is familiar if only just to visit and see your parents.  I am looking for Russian people groups in Phoenix.  I think you will want to speak Russian with Russian people to not feel so far from home.  I will want you to stay with me forever because you want to, not because you have to.  Can you see that I want my love to make you happy and safe but also keep you free?
Love,
Dave.

Hello my dear David!
I know what it means to think about someone constantly , because I feel it to you my dear . I try to occupy myself with other things , but still nothing happens . Now I can not imagine myself without you in my life. You have become one whole me my dear . I used to spend all his days in the main house . I was a reserved man , and no one could trust . You became my secret admirer . For you I have no secrets. You're the only person with whom I can be completely open and honest. I love you my dear . Over time , I realize that life without you was boring and monotonous , but now everything will change. You gave me happiness , which I have not received ever. You became everything to me . I can not be afraid that once again will hurt in a relationship, because your love is sincere to me .
Previously, my dear , I was very amorous and always believed the men , but gradually over the years I became smarter and know that they all need . Most men do not even know it seems to me what love is . They only use the word to befuddle Woman. This in my opinion is very cruel . Every woman wants to meet the guy of her dreams, but when he receives only a deception. Dishonor their identity , it loses the meaning of his dreams. Everything for her at this stage of life can result. You probably know what the statistics of deaths of young girls who take suicide because undivided love. It's awful , my dear . I wish that our world has become so cruel . But I can not be sad because I have loved you . You and I have a real love. Our novel can be described in the book , as we like to think nobody likes more .
We're located on different continents , but unless it changes our relationship to each other ? I love you my dear . I do not need anyone but you. I will try to look for an opportunity to come to you. I can not be here without you and without your love .
My dear , I know that there is one thing I know for sure it's my love for you . I love you very much . We will have a wonderful time together. Your words in each letter showed me that you and I want the same . I want a serious and lasting relationship . If things continue on like this , all we have to get you my love . I think about you every day and wish that now you're not next to me. I have to be patient and wait for the moment when it will finally be realized .
With hugs and gentle kisses , your love
Petra

For the second time Petra vanished for 4 days and had begun not to answer the questions I asked ever. I think things started to go downhill when I said I couldn't bring a wedding ring.   And I had already met Olga.

Petra,
I have been thinking about you.  I got so frustrated that you never answered my questions to you that I couldn't stand it, but I never will understand Russian as well as you speak English.  I wonder if you just couldn't understand my questions.

Anyway, sorry if I hurt your feelings and I hope you can remember the good times as I do, when I went crazy if I didn't get an email from you.

I wish you a good life and that you will find the good man you deserve, because I think you are a good girl.
Sincerely,
Dave Lawrence. 

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