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In case there are some who read this website who don't know us, or, those who know us but want to reread it again, here the little story of how Cass and I actually met:

Rob:
I met Cass online. To be precise in the "Roleplaying Games Forum" of CompuServe. At first, I simply didn't put one and one together. I mean. I was chatting with her, and chatting with her, but for some reason I was not getting into it that it was the samne person. Of course, I was chatting with other people, and we had common friends, but just much later I realized that we chatted quite often. At the time I first met her, or before I met her, I had a crush on a character, and thought I was in love with the player. After the player, Kristen, left I realized my error. Later, and that was just before I considered Cass my friend, I was in love with another player, Sierra. I thought it would have been that same stupid thing with online crush on the character, but... As Sierra left, I felt bad. I realized that my feelings had been for the player, not the character and cursed myself. Of course, I knew that online romances seldom work out. Sierra returned and in a bad night, something happened that made her leave. I appologized and told her how I felt. S understood but said that I realized my feelings way too later. Why do I mention those two previous episodes of my online love woes? They will come into play later.
Then I begun to roleplay with Cass, and more or less "added" her user ID to the list of ID's of friends. We chatted a bit more and more often, and quite often the chats where about our lives and how we felt and what we thought. And Cass and I had quite a few things in common, including the love for dogs.
Then, I think it was June 13th 2000, something happened. Well, I say it was June, but for some reason I am not sure if it was June or July, but the school in Berlin was still going on, though already winding down. Anyways... I was cleaning windows and as it was my habit while doing those, I let my mind wander and started to daydream. I daydreamed about chatting with Cass. It was then, that I stopped and thought about what I was doing. At that moment I realized that I was about to fall in love with Cassandra. I knew that feeling from before (see, told you my "experience" with Kristen and Sierra would come into play) and I knew it was the budding love for the player, not the character. I also knew that it was early enough to crush it, but also early enough to let it blossom. I decided to let it blossom.
Later that evening I was waiting for Cass to come online, but it was a long wait. However a common friend of ours, Andy, came online and I pounced on him and begun to ask him a question: His oppinion if I should ask about a long distance online relationship. His response was rather cautious. He reminded me that Cass was a renown flirt and that she might not feel the same about me as I felt about her. But he suggested I should try it anyways, after all, she might feel the same.
Then Cass came finally online. I asked her and... Again, I have to be honest. I don't really know what exactly happened, as neither Cass nor I saved a script for it. But she will most likely write more about that herself.
But the end was the same. Cass told me that she was interested in me for while but that I completely missed all those hints she gave me. But she was willing to forgive me and we begun to "date" online. After a while I asked her about her phone number. At first I had planned to get the number from someone else, like Andy, and to surprise her by calling her. But it ended up with me asking her about it. And I did call her. The first talk was more a stammering from my side, but subsequent calls became more relaxed and easier.
I also bought her a few little trinkets as gifts (garnet earrings and so on), but not too many. And I wrote her real letters. Though on the computer and printed out but I am much quicker typing than writing with a pen and its more readable. 
Finally it happened that Cass decided she would visit me. The date was set for December 27th 2000 and she would come for two weeks.