I have been writing about my wish for love for a long time, probably from the first month I started blogging (back in November 2002). I guess because of this, back in back in 2003 or 2004, Shannon thought I’d appreciate a link to a Rose is Rose cartoon that touched on the topic. In the three-frame cartoon, you see a guy and girl in interesting body contortions in the first two frames respectively, then you see how their positions fit with each other in the third frame. The text in the frames were “Somewhere there is someone waiting…who is the perfect match for each of us!”.

I printed it at the time, and put it up somewhere (my memory’s fuzzy). It got tattered, and when I tried to track down another copy to print I had no luck. I was so desperate to find it that in November of 2005 I emailed the cartoonist somehow and asked him for the link. Unfortunately the link was no longer on his website, but I could order it from another site as a print or on a mug. I didn’t act on it.

But then late last week, I thought of the cartoon again, and I remembered that I had contacted the cartoonist, but forgot what came out of it. I found the email (gmail totally rocks my world) and decided to try and order the strip as a print or on a mug, but I had to contact a different company that’s responsible for printing. I received a reply from the company saying they no longer had the cartoon in their archives, so I’d have to ask the cartoonist to add the print to their site once again, so that I could get it printed.

And guess what? This third party included a link to the cartoon! I was so excited to see it again:

When I read it, I just feel so optimistic. Thanks Shannon for sending it to me in the first place!

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