Letter 1 Hello Eddie! I am very glad to hear from you. As I wrote to you my name is Marina. I'm 27 years old. My birth is 08.03.1977, tall 170 cm and weight 54 kg. I live in Russia, in Krasnodar city. It situated on the river Kuban. Krasnodar is a centre of Krasnodar region. I like this city, I was born here. I live alone. My parents died some years ago. I have no own sisters and brothers, but I have the cousin sister, she is 28 years, her name is Elena. She is my closest friend in whom I'm sure and which I can entrust all. She lives with her father. Her father - my uncle - has replaced to me the father after death of my parents, and I'm very grateful to him for it and I love him very much. They live in the next area of our city. I have never been married, I have no children, but I dream of the day I 'll have a family of my own. I have finished pedagogical university and now I work in a kindergarten as the tutor. I like my job, I love children very much. I work here 3 years. I want to find the man of my life. I want to be a good woman for my man and good mother for our future children. I want a honest and kind husband, he must provide and care for family, lead the family in love, wisdom and strengh and I shall help him in all. I am a simple, honest and kind girl. I do not like lies and deceit. I very much appreciate honesty and decency in people. I am looking for heart, mind and soul with my man. I know that now a lot of fraud on the Internet and I would not want to become deceived. Please, if you search entertainments and if you are not interested in me, let me know about it at once, I ' ll understand. If you have serious intentions and If you want to know me closer and more then let's correspond. As I already wrote to you here in Russia I could not find the man with which I want to create the family, herefore I have decided to try to find my only man through the Internet. I like your structure and I have decided to write to you and to know you better. Please, share with me yuor intentions and values, I ' ll be very grateful to you. Please, be candid in your questions and answers to me, I'll share any informations with you. I wait your letter with impatience. Hope to hear from you soon, Marina. Letter 2 Hello dear Eddie!!! How are you? I'm well and I'm very glad that you have answered me and I'm excited about you too. Thank you very much for the compliment, I am very glad that you have liked me. In this letter I send you my another photos with my uncle and my cousin and I hope to receive from you too your photos from your daily life. First of all I'm sorry very much for some my spelling mistakes in my letters. I know English not so well to write and to speak without mistakes absolutely, but I'm writing my letters myself. I studied English at school, then at university. I like English language, therefore I began to study it. Unfortunately I speak much worse than I write. Because I have no colloquial practice in English. To write more easy for me because I have time to choose the necessary words and to construct the sentences correctly and then I can correct if I shall see a mistake. Sometimes I can choose at once the necessary words, but sometimes I am at a loss in a choice of words and word-combinations and I do mistakes. It for the lack of skills. I believe having started to correspond with you my English will improve. As to reading in English I have not special difficulties, for me to read in English more easy than to write and to speak. It is especially difficult to express the feelings and emotions. Therefore I am sorry very much beforehand for my future mistakes. I hope you can understand my letters. I'll tell you about me and about my life. As I wrote to you I work as the tutor in the kindergarten. After my work or in my free time I like to read, I like science fiction, adventure novels, detectives. Also I like to read and study medical magazines and books, I have read many books on national medicine, national methods of treatment and on different kinds of massages. It is very interesting and useful. Also I like to knit. As to music, I like to listen to the music, I like different music, depending on my mood. I like songs of different executors, especially Russian, English, Italian and French. I love these languages, but I understand only the English songs and Russian of course, Italian and French in part. And what music do you enjoy? Also I like to cook very much, most of all I like to bake pies, cookies and pies with different stuffings and to treat my friends. As to me I try to not be fond of pies to not grow fat, I apologize for such frankness. What food or dishes do you like? I like fruits very much, especially apples, pears and grapes, also I like berries: strawberry, wild strawberry, bilberry, raspberry and many others, I do not like gooseberry. My favourite season - summer because in the summer it is a lot of berries and because I like to swimm very much. The swimming in the pool indoors is not so good as the swimming in the river, lake or sea. I love the nature very much. Going to nature for rest and activities is my favorite activity. Tell me please more in detail what do you like to do in your free time and about your hobbies. I very wait your letter and hope to hear from you soon. Marina. Letter 3 Hello dear Eddie!!! I am very pleased to receive the letter from you. I hope that you have had a wonderful day. Thank you very much for the photos, you are very handsome man! I ' m very glad to read your new letters. To my big regret I not always have the opportunity to visit the Internet - class after my work because I am late at my job sometimes. My friends and my fellow workers say that I have imperceptibly changed. And I feel changes inside me too. I think, more precisely I sure that it occurs because of our correspondence. Many thanks to you for your warm letters. I am really very glad to receive news from you. I think that both of us search in live of similar things and many our vital principles are similar. As to me I do not want too much, I only want to have the fair and serious relations. I want to grow fond of the man all my soul and heart and to give him myself completely. I would want it very much. I with the great pleasure shall give to you some russian words, what words you would like to learn? As for an R in the some russian words, I have not absolutely understood that you have in view of. Write to me these words and I shall try to explain to you, ok? I'm sorry, but already late, I should go home. I hope tomorrow I shall see the letter from you. I wait your letter. Marina. Letter 4 Hello my dear Eddie!!! I'm so glad to receive your letter. How are you? I'm well, and I think you are well too. Today was very interesting day, we with children from the kindergarten where I work, went to the cinema and looked a fairy tale about the cinderella, kiddies were very glad. Some children looked this fairy tale for the first time and they has liked it very much. After that, having returned in the kindergarten, we discussed this film. I like to talk to children on different themes, sometimes they speak very simple and at the same time clever ideas. Not without reason there is such saying: " Lips of the baby speaks the true ". We discussed a theme of riches and poverty, a theme of love and kindness, honesty and validity. I think that kind fairy tales, where the kindly always wins the evil, are necessary for children because the principles and morals with which the person will live all his life are pawned in the childhood. Now in our world it is a lot of evil and violence and children see it including on TV, I think children should see as much as possible kindness, validity and humanity. I try to learn they to these qualities and I hope it will help them in their life, hope I can. I have the usual passport of a citizen of Russia but if you have in view of the passport for travel abroad I have no it. I never travelled outside of Russia and if I shall be going to travel I should make the passport for travel abroad. Please, you should not be spent for sendings of things for me, I very much appreciate it, but I cannot accept such gift. Please understand me correctly. I want to tell you about my usual day. I wake up at 6:00 am, usually I eat for the breakfast something easy, for example a sandwich and a cup of coffee or juice. I go for work to 8:00 am. I get to my work usually on foot. A dinner in our kindergarten at 1:00 pm. My working day comes to the end at 6:00 pm. Usually after work I go home, I have supper and I do my home work or sometimes I meet with my girlfriends. But now my usual day has a little changed, because now after my work I go to the Internet cafe, because I need your letters. Tomorrow after work I again shall visit the Internet cafe, I hope to receive your letter tomorrow. Marina. Letter 5 Hello my dear Eddie!!! I am sooooooo glad to hear from you, how are you? With every letter I understood that I have so strongly become attached to you, I really wanted to know you closer. You are kind, attentive and decent person. And I am really happy to communicate with you. Every day after my work I hurry to the internet cafe to read your letters and to know how are you, how is the things in your life, what news, and all that is connected with you. My heart is thrilling always when I see the e-letter from you in my e-mail box. I'm afraid to not find out the new letter from you. I catch myself on ideas that I constantly think of you, Eddie, When I wake up and before sleeping, before my work, after my work and during my work. You became a part of my life. Dear Eddie, I know that you are a busy man and you have a lot of work to do, but I am happy you can always find a some minutes for me. I want to make you happy too. I want you know how you are important for me, how you are dear for me. We far apart, but at the same time we are very close to each other, I feel so. And this sense of affinity grows with each letter. I feel how with each letter you become closer for me. Last night I could not fall asleep for a long time and I thought about you, you became for me the native person, whom I can open my heart. I believe and trust you and I believe you don't play with my feelings. I'm very glad that the destiny has acquainted us and I'm grateful to destiny for it. With impatience I wait your next letter and hope to hear from you soon. Your Marina. Letter 6 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! I'm so glad to receive the letter from you. How are you doing? Hope you are succeed. To my regret yesterday I could not visit the Internet cafe. I have received two your letters yesterday's and today's. I already wrote to you that I not always have an opportunity to visit the Internet cafe, therefore please do not worry if you will not receive my letter. Each time when I come into the Internet cafe and look the mail I'm afraid to not find out your letter. And when I see your letter in the mail box I cannot constrain a happy smile on my face. I think if I would not be in a public place during this moment I would jumped and exclaimed because of pleasure. And now I see that some ambient me people in the Internet cafe have noticed my pleasure which I cannot hide, and they are smiling too. On the one hand I think it is necessary to be able to constrain the emotions, but on the other hand it is pleasant for me that people around of me are involuntarily pleased together with me though they do not know the reason of my pleasure and can guess only! I should admit to you that now I cannot without you and your warm emails my dear Eddie. Your emails are so important for me, they became the important part of my life, they are the source of my pleasure in my life, my dear Eddie, I am very glad to our acquaintance and I very much would like to meet you in the person because sometimes the feeling to put into words very difficultly and it is necessary the direct dialogue with the help not only words, but also looks, gestures, movements, touches and so on. I think the only way we would know our true feelings is to see each other. I'm not sure how that would work but if you agree with me we can think about this way. I am at a loss to choose correct words, but I hope you understand the sense. My sister visited me yesterday and I have told to her about you. And after conversation with her I was even more convinced of my feelings. My sister is very glad for me that I am happy, that I have met the very good man, and she is glad for us that our relations are grow. She hopes that we with you will have a good luck in our relations and we can be together. She send to you the huge greetings, the wishes of health and good luck. She knew, I spoke her that I am going to get acquainted with the foreign person through the Internet, but I did not tell to her yet that I already some weeks correspond with you. And now when she knows she is happy too that we have liked each other and came to mutual understanding and even more it. I am really overflown with feelings now and likely I do many grammatic mistakes, I ' m sorry, but I hope you understand me. I am a Christian too. My parents were Christians too, they have brought up me in Christian laws and customs. I ' m not a politics. I ' m not familiar personally with any Americans, I only read about America and American people. I very well treat Americans, I respect their principles and customs, I like their culture. I saw many American films which are undoubtedly based on real events from real life, having looked them there is a general impression about people. I know that some people envy Americans, the some people do not like, but I think that is necessary to follow an example Americans and to study at them in many things. I hope you could understand sense of my words, sometimes very difficultly express something in not native language. I with impatience wait for your answer, Your Marina. Letter 7 Hello dear Eddie!!! How are you? I'm well and I'm very glad to hear from you. Thank you very much for the photos, I like them very much! I like to read your letters and to know you and what is going in your life. It's a good way to learn about you and know how you spend your time. It's very interesting for me. Today I want to tell you about my territory where I live. I hope it will be interesting for you. I think that it is always interesting to learn about other cities and other country. Krasnodar territory is located in a northwest part of Caucasus. In the north and northeast it borders on the Rostov area, in the east - with Stavropol territory, in the south - with Abkhazia. Southern and western borders of territory are washed Black and Azov seas. In the structure of Krasnodar territory there is a Republic Adygeyskaya. The river Kuban is dividing Krasnodar territory on two parts: northern where steppes, and southern - a zone of foothills and mountains. Krasnodar territory is one of the most southern corners of Russia. The fauna of Krasnodar territory is extremely rich. The brown bears, the lynxs, the wild boars, the wolfs, the jackals, the martens, the foxs, the wood cats, the deers and many others live in woods. On the lakes a lot of the birds, and also the otters and the minks. The main cities of Krasnodar territory: Krasnodar, Sochi, Novorossisk, Armavir. About 5 millions people lives in Krasnodar territory. Krasnodar territory was founded in 1937. Distance from Krasnodar up to Moscow - 1539 kilometers. I have tried to tell very in detail to you about my territory where I live and I hope it was interesting to you. If you will not complicate tell me please about that place where you do live, it would be very interesting to me to find out about it. Now I must go home. I shall wait for your next letter. Your letters are very necessary for me. I feel by my heart that you are very good person and I'm very glad that I have got acquainted with you. Tomorrow I again shall visit the Internet cafe, I hope to see your letter. Unfortunately I have no my own computer at my home, though I would like to have it because to have a computer now is very conveniently, but my salary does not allow me to have own computer at my home, I'm sorry very much for such frankness, simply I want to be frank with you. I use the Internet Cafe, which is near to my house. With impatience I wait your next letter, Marina. Letter 8 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! I'm so glad to receive your letters. How are you? I'm sorry but yesterday I have been busy very much at my work and only today could visit the Internet cafe. I so much missed you!!!!!! Yesterday on Saturday at my work there was a general cleaning, all workers of the kindergarten came and carefully washed all kindergarten. We have such cleaning once a month or a 2 months, seasonally, in the winter less often because the dust has less. We washed windows, toys, cases, shelfs and so on. Such cleaning is necessary in a kindergarten. My full name is Marina Kartashova (Marina is my name and Kartashova is my surname). Unfortunately I have no own phone, I have to admit to you that to have telephone is too expensive for me, I'm sorry very much for such frankness, my salary is not high and I very hope that this argument will not push away you. As I already wrote to you I live alone and I provide myself, but unfortunately phone I can not allow myself yet. I have no most favourite american movie, I like some of them, such as "Titanic" and a song from it too, " Pirl Harbor ", "Intuition", also I like very much " The Vanilla sky ", "Butterfly effect", "Matrix". Recently I saw аmerican movie " 50 first dates ", I have liked this movie, especially I liked the walrus and the penguin, though they are not the main heroes, but they are very amusing! Songs I like even more, I'm sorry, but I cannot allocate any one of them. My favourite color is white and blue. My favourite flower is a white lily. My favourite holiday is New Year, I like this holiday very much, first of all because it is a family holiday, also because from new year always wait for something new, changes in the best side, as a rule people try to leave their problems in the last year and enter into the new year with new forces. Though there all are reserves, but somewhat helps. I too would like to know your favorites. Write to me please about them. And else if you watched some of russian films what of them you have liked most of all? I with impatience wait for your answer, Your Marina. Letter 9 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! I'm so glad to receive your letter. How are you? I missed you very much! Last night I could not fall asleep, because I thought about you, my dear Eddie, about us, about our acquaintance, about your warm letters and about our relations. I asked the God about your health and well-being, I thank him that we found each other and we have the opportunity to meet. I'm a happy woman, because I found you, and I ' ll more happy when I ' ll meet you, when I ' ll be in your embraces, my lovely Eddie. Here the children is out for summer too. As for a American football, I think I have never seen it. Today on the way to work I have met my former school teacher, her name is Olga Nikolaevna, she was our curator and the teacher of Russian and the literature. We did not see for a long time. I respect her very much, and not only I but and all my former schoolmates because she is the wise woman, she always gave wise advice, she taught us not only to Russian and the literature but also to validity, honesty and kindness. I am grateful to her for it. Certainly the main contribution to my education was brought by my parents, but teachers have important value too. Olga Nikolaevna has no children, unfortunately her health has not allowed to give birth to the child, maybe therefore all her heat and care she gave the pupils, she remembers all pupils, certainly especially those which visit her. Now she is a pensioner, but we with girlfriends sometimes come to her to find out how is she. Today at the meeting with Olga Nikolaevna we had no a lot of time to talk, but I could not be kept and I have told to her about you, Eddie, and about our relations. She too was glad for me and has wished good luck to us. You know, all those people dear by me which I have told about you and about our relations, approve our relations and wish good luck to us further. Anybody from them did not dissuade me to contact you. I think it very good sign and I ' m sure that all will be good! I very much wait our meeting and often I present how we shall be together, our joint evenings, mornings, weekends and so on. I would want to be there with you right now. I want to feel you, to smell you, to touch you, to hear you... But it is not possible during this moment, and it grieve me. I dream to be happy and to make you happy. We live only once. An idea that we shall not be together frightens me. I do not want to think of it and I banish these ideas. You are the only man in the world with which I would like to be with together. My dreams come nearer to a reality due to you. Thank you for it! I asked a flower the God, he has given me a garden, I asked a tree, he has given me a wood, I asked a river, he has given me an ocean. And he has given me YOU! You know, though we are in the different countries and different cultures, and probablely I'm too lost in my dreams, but I am sure, that people which really require in the each other and want to be together, will not be stopped by any barriers. I very much hope that we shall overcome all barrier on our way and we shall be together. I wait your response and hope to hear from you soon! Only your Marina. Letter 10 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! I am very glad to hear from you. How are you? I so want to meet you in the person, that I am ready to meet you everywhere!!! I very much want to come to you and I ' m ready to leave all here and to go to you! I would want to spend the rest of my life loving you too!!! And if you are not against I shall go to the travel agency and I ' ll find out about the trip to you. And then I shall inform to you. Today I want to share with you one very good poem, unfortunately I do not know who is author of this poem. I shall write to you it in Russian, I hope you can translate it and understand its sense, it completely expresses my feelings to you, I hope you will enjoy it. Хочу, чтоб для любой моей мечты Ты был всю жизнь единственной границей, Хочу в той книге, что читаешь ты, Быть первой и последнею страницей. Хочу из всех твоих забот и дум Забрать по крайней мере половину, Хочу чтоб вдруг пришло тебе на ум, Что счастлив ты и в этом я повинна. Хочу тебе покоя не давать, Быть сильною и оставаться слабой, Хочу тебя своей любовью звать Ведь я и жить иначе не смогла бы. Хочу быть музыкой к которой ты привык И без неё не мог прожить и часа, Хочу чтоб молча там где слаб язык, Смогла я сердцем в сердце достучаться. I try to convey the sense of this poem in English in a case if you could not translate it. I want, that for any my dream You would be the only boundary during all my life, I want in that book which you read, To be the first and the last page. I want from all your anxieties and thoughts To take, at least, a half. I want, that suddenly you would think That you are happy and I'm guilty in it. I want to not give you a rest, I want to be a strong and to remain a weak, I want to call you " my love " Otherwise I could not live. I want to be a music to which you have become accustomed And without which you could not live even a hour, I want, that silently there where the language is weak I could to knock by my heart till your heart is opened. My translation has no any rhyme, but it is have the same sense. I am overflown with my feelings to you my lovely Eddie ! When we first time met on the Internet, I didn't suspect as far as you are great person. I want to thank you for all things which you do for me, for being my angel, for being my soul, for being my life! And I want you to know, that I have never felt so before as now. You revealed the deepest emotions and feelings I've kept inside of me for so long time. I can't wait your next letter! With love, your Marina. Letter 11 Hello my lovely Eddie!!! I ' m very glad to hear from you! How was your day? I begin understand that my life is not full without you. I admire with you, with your magnanimity and kindness, you forgive my weaknesses and you respect my opinions. I'm attracted to you and physically both emotionally, mentally and spiritually. I appreciate very much that you find me attractive, not just because of my looks, but because of my private world and the way I look at life. I always think of you. I think that all these signs possiblely to explain by the only word, this word is LOVE! I love you! In your letters so many warms and care, your words forces my heart to beat faster. When I began to correspond with you I had hope that we will have good relations. With each your following letter I understood that I have found man of my dream. I want you know I trust you and believe you as to myself. I with huge impatience wait the day of our meeting, I dream, how you meet me at the airport, how we search each other by eyes, we find and we rush in embraces each other. I want to meet you very much! Yesterday I went to travel agency, therefore I have not had time to visit the Internet cafe yesterday. There I have found out about necessary documents for trip and costs. There in agency have explained to me all things. This travel agency cooperates with the American embassy in Moscow and has very strong both adjusted connections and contacts not only to foreign embassies but also to large airlines and to other organizations. There me have assured that they guarantee to me registration of the visa and all documents necessary for trip. Except for it they help the clients to reserve tickets convenient to visa's terms. I should issue the visa and the passport for travel abroad. They have explained to me that for me as unmarried and having a constant place of work, the most suitable variant is the tourist visa. The visa costs 160$US and 30 $ for its registration, the passport for travel abroad costs 80 $, also 45 $ for medical exam and 40 for interview and for some other expenses I ' ll have. In total I will need about 360$US to cover all expenses for papers. The visa will be ready through 10 - 12 days after payment and the agreement. Firstly it is necessary to issue the passport for travel abroad and the visa and other documents, and then to reserve tickets. There is no international airport here in Krasnodar, therefore I should to fly first from Krasnodar to Moscow, then from Moscow to you to Denver. The cost of the tickets aboard the plane from Krasnodar to Moscow is 200$US, the cost of the cheapest tickets from Moscow to Denver - 750 - 800$US, depending on airline, to find out the cost of the ticket more precisely is possible only after booking tickets. It is cost of tickets by the economic class, these are the cheapest tickets. This cost includes all gathering the airports. I should be honest with you and I should admit that I have no so big sum of money, for me it is very big sum of money. I assumed that tickets to the USA are expensive but I did not think that so expensive. I so want to meet you in the person! It is very inconvenient for me to ask you about it, Is it a truth that you can help me with money on my trip to you? I with impatience shall wait your letter. I'm thinking of you, dear Eddie, and I wait your letter. With love, your Marina. Letter 12 Hello my lovely Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you! How are you? I'm well, I'm a happiest woman in the world because of you, because soon we will be together! Thank you for your care of me, I appreciate it very much. Yes, of course, I relize your fear and anxiety, therefore I shall necessarily call you that you have no doubts that it is I'm, loving you Marina, but not a scammer. In the days off, on Saturday or Sunday, I shall go to the central public telephone booth and I shall call to you. Inform me please your telephone number and time more convenient for you. My dear Eddie, I want to hear your voice very much! Likely I shall be excited very much and I shall to understand you poorly and I can not speak English, therefore I want to ask you that you spoke slowlier. I already wrote to you I speak English more worse than I write and I read, to perceive on hearing more difficultly for me than to read. Therefore I want to ask you to speak more slowly during our telephone conversation, ok? Here in Krasnodar time goes at 1 o'clock forward than in Moscow. My dearest Eddie, I can't without you, you are the inseparable part of my life. All days I'm dreaming about our meeting, my lovely Eddie, I can't wait that moment when we will meet, I want it so much! I so want to be with you, my Eddie! I can't wait a time when we will be together! And I very hope that we will together soon, my lovely Eddie. I await your letter with impatience. Thinking about you, With love, your Marina. Letter 13 Hello my lovely Eddie!!! How are you? I'm very glad to hear from you. Thank you very much for your information and for your phone number, I shall necessarily call you, but to my big regret I cannot give you my home address. I really completely trust you, but unfortunately I cannot give you my address. The matter is that I have no my own apartment, I rent the apartment. And when I concluded the contract of rent with the owner of this apartment there was one point which forbids to me to give the address of this apartment to the third parties, except for my relatives. It was a condition of the owner of this apartment. And I have been compelled to agree with it. And consequently, if I shall give you the address of this apartment I can have troubles with the owner of this apartment. Such unpleasant situation. Certainly, I completely trust you and if this apartment would be in my property I with the great pleasure would give you the address. I hope you understand my situation and do not take offence at me? Please, understand me correctly. Though......... I shall give you my home address on a unexpected case. If suddenly will arise any problems with the connection or troubles with the Internet or computer that we have not lost our connection with you. But promise me please, that you will use my home address only as a last resort!!! There is my home address: Russia 350049 Krasnodar street Kotovskogo house 104, apartment 41. Please, consider this with understanding. I can't be far apart from you, it's so hard! Eddie, you are my life, I do not get tired to repeat about my feelings to you, Eddie, I very much want to be with you! I am ready to say it again and again. And I very much wait our meeting, I am so overflown with my feelings to you that I want to express them not only by words! I want to hug you so much, to feel your warmth, to look into your kind and tender eyes, to feel myself happy and safe near you. I'm sure everything will be well and the destiny will work for us and we will be happy together, Eddie. I often think about us and try to imagine our life together. Sometimes I feel you so near and close to me. I thank God for us, for we found each other in this so large world. I close my eyes and I am imagining about this happy picture. I dream how we will spend our time together, to go for a walk. I want that you will show me your native land, a places where you like to go for a walk and where you like to spend a more of your time. I want to be with you very much, my lovely Eddie! I want to say to you that I have spoken with my sister about us once again, about my coming to you, about that we want to meet each other very much! She is very glad for us. She sees my feelings and my happiness from our relations! I with impatience wait for the approach of each next day to approach our meeting! I'm waiting for your letter! With all my love, Marina. Letter 14 Hello my dearest, Eddie!!! I sooooo missed you! I so want to be with you, every day! Before go to sleep, I imagine our first meeting. How I come from airport, and I see you at the first time. I really cannot imagine how many emotions I'll feel, because even thinking about it, my heart beating is becoming faster and faster. I want to see you very-very much and I miss you more and more every day. I am overflown with feelings, because I think that love has finally found me. My inner feelings never lie me. I think about our future and I see you and me together, it's my dream. My dear Eddie, I wonder how will it feel to be in your arms, to kiss you and to love you and to be loved by you. It makes me crazy!!! I'll call to you tomorrow on Saturday in the evening, after 5pm, that is there you will have morning. I am very much excited by our forthcoming telephone conversation, my dear Eddie, if suddenly I'll forget the English words that I'll speak Russian :-) I want to be with you always, both when you are sad and when you are happy. I want to hold your hand when we sleep. I want to cook breakfast for you, to spend weekends with you, to wait for the time when you come from work. I want to have family with you. I wish to be with you and to be in your hands... I think we have a lot in common, I think it has important value for a pair. You are very careful and magnanimous man. I am very happy that have met you and more happier from that soon we shall be together. You are very handsome and decent man. You combine many of good man's qualities and first of all human qualities, I think such men as you very little in world now, therefore I am very glad and happy that the destiny has reduced us and gives us a chance to be together. I all the time think of us and very much I wait our meeting. I am very wait your next letter and hope to hear from you soon!!! Only your Marina. Letter 15 Hello Eddie! I'm Elena, Marina's sister. I write you at the request of my sister Marina. Unfortunately she cannot visit the Internet cafe to contact you, she has damaged strongly her foot and she is difficult to go, she stays at home and she does not leave a home at all. She asked to write to you about it and to say to you that she is missing you very much and she loves you very much! And she is sorry very much that could not call you because of it. The doctor has told that there is nothing terrible, but a full rest is necessary for her leg, and in some days she will recover. Unfortunately I do not know English in perfection, but Marina has told to me that you will understand. She also asked to send you these photos and to ask you do not worry. She experiences about happened and about that cannot contact you herself. I shall visit her in some days and if she will can not to go, that I shall contact you and I shall inform to you news about her; if she will not jump on one leg to the Internet cafe, I joke! Though knowing my sister and her feelings to you I shall not be surprised if she really will make it! I hope she will recover soon. And at last I want to tell to you that Marina really loves you very much, I see it from the side, and she wants to meet you very much. If you're interesting in my opinion, that I completely approve your relationship and I wish you huge happiness! I very hope soon you will be together! Bye-bye. Elena Letter 16 Hello Eddie! It's Elena, Marina's sister. How are you doing? I hope well. Unfortunately I could not write to you during a week, only today in the day off. Today in the morning I went to Marina to find out how is she. She send the hello to you! She misses you very much! Marina already is better now, on Monday she will go to work, and she will can write to you herself on Monday in the evening after work. But nevertheless she asked me that today I have written to you and have sent the regards from her and that on Monday she will write to you. Best regards, Elena. Letter 17 Hello my dearest Eddie! I sooooooooooooooooooooo much MISSED YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot put into it by words! My dearest Eddie, I thought of you all this time, I missed you very much! Many thanks for congratulations on the Valentine's day and for the flower! I too congratulate you Happy Valentine's day! During these days of our separation I have understood how so very much you are special to me. I need you very much, I need you and only you! I LOVE YOU too MY DEAREST Eddie!!! In spite of we did not correspond I felt your support inside me, in my heart! My leg is well now, thank you very much for your care of me. I shall tell to you about my leg, there was very ridiculous or even a silly thing, it is very difficult to explain it in English because I do not know medical terms in English, but I shall try. I had a splinter in my leg some days, it was disturbing me and I have decided to get rid of it independently without medical assistance. I have picked open my leg, but not successfully because I have taken out my splinter not completely, and then that place on my leg began to rot and pick, more and more. It became very hurt to step my leg and I have been compelled to go to the hospital. The surgeon has removed to me the rest of a splinter and the formed pus, I apologize for such unpleasant details. I every day were should process a wound on my leg by medicines and change bandage and as small as possible to step my sick leg. The doctor has told to me that the less I shall step my leg the faster it will recover. It's still a little hurt to step, but not so dangerous, all terrible are already behind. Eddie, for me these some days have seemed to me an eternity. My dearest Eddie, I have been thinking of you all these days!!! I have missed you so much, and all I can think of is YOU!!!! I know that I love you, that you are the man for me, the man I search my life for!!! I see in you, a man of tender heart and soul! I see in you, a man who understands that love is more than physical passion, I see in you, a man who will love me in the good times and the bad times. I see in you a man who is looking for the sincere relationship, where the 2 people commit themselves to one another, and pledge in their heart and soul to live their life with this person for all times. This makes my heart warm with love, I also wish to commit my life and love to you, my lovely Eddie! I so wait the day of our meeting, I want to be with you very much! I wait your next letter and hope to hear from you soon! With love, only your Marina. Letter 18 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you! How are you? Unfortunately yesterday I have not had time to visit the Internet cafe because of my job. I want to share with you the fine news: one of my old girlfriend will marry soon! I have met her today. We for a long time did not see each other, we studied together at school. She will marry on March, 19. She is very happy, I too very glad for her. She long time was alone and at the end of the last year she has got acquainted with the man. Recently he has proposed her a marriage and she has agreed. I think they will be happy together, I hope. I think each person has in the life both the good periods and bad, after misfortune the happiness comes. May be I am mistaken, probably exceptions are in life, but I believe in the supreme validity and I believe to each person is rendered on his merits. So my girlfriend will be the married woman soon and will have the family. To tell the truth I do not understand those women which do not want to have children, the family, the lovely husband. I understand that there are different situations in life when the woman does can not to have children because of financial instability, but there are such women which for the sake of career are ready to all, which that they have achieve in life, all is not enough. I am not taken to condemn such women, but I do not respect them. I shall tell to you a little about forthcoming wedding of my girlfriend, I think it will be interesting to you. Here in Russia there is such custom: in day of wedding before registration of a marriage in the registry office or before wedding the groom "redeems" the bride, it named "repayment". Girlfriends and relatives of the bride set to the groom various riddles and different tests. The groom should answer all put questions, to overcome all tests for ways to the bride, if the groom does not know the answer or cannot overcome test he pays something, for example sweets, fruit, wine or money, certainly symbolically. Sometimes for the wrong answer ask the groom to sing any song or to dance. Usually finishing test is search of a wedding shoe of the bride while the bride stands in one shoe. A shoe hide in the same room where there is a bride, or expose many the closed boxes with price lists, in one of them the wedding shoe, and in other boxes other footwear, for example a children's sandal, a man's old boot or a domestic slipper and many other things lays. The groom buys boxes one by one until then yet will not choose a box with a shoe of the bride. And then he with own hand dresses a shoe on a foot of the bride. The repayment always happens very interesting and ridiculous. Friends and relatives of the groom help him in tests. Wedding is the very pleasant, touching, solemn and very beautiful event! Have you in USA similar customs? It would be interesting to me to know about it. Now I finish my letter, I with impatience shall wait your response and hope to hear from you soon. Thinking about you, my dear Eddie! With love, your Marina. Letter 19 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you. Thank you very much for the long letter! I enjoyed it! First of all I want to tell that I'm too very - very much glad for your friend Jason, for his wife Bridgett and for their newborn kid! There is nothing more perfectly birth of new life! How did they have name their boy? Also thank you for your understanding concerning difficulty to speak about death of my parents, it's really very hurt. I shall necessarily tell to you about it when I shall can. You have there very interesting and amusing wedding customs! We have here similar when the bride throws the bouquet of flowers over her shoulder to the single women. I am very happy soon we will be together! Every next day my love to you grows. It would be so great if we would be together right now and could embrace each other. We could look each other in eyes. I very wait that it will come true, I have met my beloveing man and soon we will be together, and then when we will be together, Eddie, I shall be more happier! Now I cannot imagine my life without you, dear Eddie. I shall find out about a way of a sending of money and then I shall inform to you. I think all nights that soon I will see you. I have already imagined our meeting for thousands times, I do not know precisely how it will be, but I am sure it will be one of the most beautiful and happy days in my life. Now, when I think about it my heart is beating strongly. I can't wait for the moment when I shall sit into the plane which will take me through thousands kilometres to you Eddie. I want to close my eyes and to open them only at the moment when you meet me at the airport. I have to finish my letter, hope to hear from you soon! With love, only your Marina. Letter 20 Hello my lovely Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you! I shall necessarily tell Elena hello from you and thank her. And you tell hello from me to your parents and congratulate happy birthday your father! I wish him the strong health for long - long years, many - many happiness, good luck and successes in his affairs and in his life and all the best! If I would be near to you that I necessarily would thank your parents for such good son as you, I am sure they are proud of you! I wish your father happy birthday and I hope you will have wonderful day and great time! Eddie, I have found out about transfer of money, the most reliable, saves and fast way of transfer of money it is via the western union. For this purpose you should know my full name. My full name is Marina Kartashova (Marina is my name and Kartashova is my surname). RUSSIA KRASNODAR, 350000 ALFA BANK KRASNAYA, 124 It is the address of bank of the nearest to my house. My dearest Eddie, I so want to be with you and I'm so happy soon we will be together! I'm the happiest woman in the world and I thank you for it! I with impatience wait for your letter and I hope to hear from you soon! Thinking about you, my lovely Eddie! With love, only your Marina. Letter 21 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you! And I'm glad you are home. I missed you very much!!! You had a great time with your parents! You have presented very interesting and unusual gift to your father, I am sure your father liked it! I too would like to spend those interesting days with you. My dear Eddie, many thanks to you for your words, for that you consider me your treasure, I am very happy to hear it! For me you are the only treasure too in which I need! And I'm very glad and happy that soon my treasure will be in my hands!!! ;-) I very much wait our meeting! My dear Eddie, I can come to you at any time, the only question which I should settle it with my job, but it's not a problem I only should beforehand for 2 weeks warn my chief that he has altered the schedule of work. I already talked to him about it and as soon as I shall begin the official registration of papers I at once shall talk to my chief. I do not worry in this occasion. Tell me please when would be the best time for you that I come? As for my name, Marinochka this diminutive-hypocoristic from Marina, hope I have correctly written it in English, in Russian language each name has some forms which differ from each other the endings of words, for example my name Marina also is possible to name Marinochka, Marisha, Marinka, but it only colloquial. My parents always named me tenderly Marinochka. Documentary my full name is Marina Kartashova. As to my address, the country - Russia, city - Krasnodar. My first name - is Marina, my last name - Kartashova. Postal code - 350049. You know the rest. In my following letter I shall send you my other photo. I Love you Eddie!!! I with impatience wait for your following letter! With love, only your Marina. Letter 22 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you! How are you? My dear Eddie, certainly I do not think you are stupid for asking the questions about the form. I completely understand your unwillingness to be mistaken. I shall necessarily inform to you at once as soon as I shall receive money. My lovely Eddie, many thanks to you for your care and kindness, I will necessary spend some money on a small gift to Elena and necessarily on a telephone call to you this weekend. Eddie, yes it's ok that I will come to you in May, but you know my desire, I wanted to be with you as soon as possible! But I completely understand all and I can look really at things. Would be great if things will change and our meeting can be sooner, but for now lets plan for May. I do not think that you are crazy, or then both of us are crazy because I completely agree with you my love for you cannot be measured too, and I love you and I need you to be part of my life very - very - very much too!!! Your words about our future family, about our children and our life touch my heart up to depth and I am happy very much because of it! Thank you very much my beloved Eddie for all that you make for me!!!!! I have to finish my letter, hope to hear from you soon! With love, only your Marina. Letter 23 Hello my love Eddie!!! Today there are many people in the Internet cafe, I for a long time waited while computer exempted and already late therefore I shall write only a pair of lines. First of all I want to inform you that I have received money, the reception of money has passed without any problems approximately within 10 minutes, I have showed my passport, have verified the data and then have given out money to me. I thank you, my love Eddie, for all that you do for me! On Monday I shall begin a process of official registration of papers for trip. Tomorrow I shall call you approximately at 5 or 6 pm here, it will be morning at you if I am not mistaken. Eddie, thank you for your understanding, I shall call tomorrow to you and then else I shall try to visit the Internet of cafe to write to you. I have to finish my letter, hope to hear from you soon! With love, only your Marina. Letter 24 Hello my dear Eddie!!! I'm so happy, I have no words! I love you! The smile does not go from my face because of happiness! I at once after the public telephone booth have gone to the Internet cafe. Eddie, I'm sorry very much, I so worried, I have been excited very much that understood nothing and could not speak English. I even now hardly choose the necessary words and to make sentenses. In such situations even native language can be forgotten, more that foreign! It is really difficult for me to understand the English language by phone, especially when you talked fast. I hope you not very laugh over me because of that I all the time asked again you. I really worried very much! I think when we shall be together we shall understand each other better because except for ears we have else eyes, lips, hands and others. ;-) I ordered 3 minutes of conversation, they have flown by so quickly!!! How you could guess at once that it I call? By my accent? I liked your voice and your laughter! Thank you, Eddie, for all that you do for me! The visa will be given to me for 3 months. This visa really demands tickets in both sides, otherwise me will not release from my country. When I wrote to you about the prices for tickets it was in view of the price in both sides. Eddie, I'm so happy, my pleasure has no borders! Likely I will cannot sleep tonight! I finish my letter, I with impatience wait your letter! With love, only your Marina. Letter 25 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you. Thank you for the photo! I too cannot cease to think of our telephone conversation, your voice sounds in my head all time! I shall not forget it never! I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH EDDIE!!!!!!!! I have good news, today I have started the process of official registration of papers for my trip to you!!! I'm so happy! The documents will be ready on Friday on March, 11, as a last resort on Monday on March, 14. As for a visa I did not hear about that I may have to wait 30 days after my passport or visa is issued before I can travel, I shall necessarily find out about it, but I think it's not so, because to me would tell about it at once when I found out full details concerning documents for trip. Soon, very soon we will be together my lovely Eddie!!! Today I'm sitting in the Internet cafe very long time, I already 48 times have re-read your letter and I cannot see enough of your photo! I imagine if I had a computer at my home likely I would not depart from it. Eddie, I have to finish my letter. I LOVE YOU!!! I wait your letter tomorrow! With all my love, only your Marina. Letter 26 Hello my love Eddie!!! I at once hasten to inform you that yesterday I went to find out about the visa about 30 days and I want glad you, I have found out that it is not so. It operates under any other conditions, I have not remembered in which, the main thing that in my case I should not wait for 30 days! I am glad to this very much! I think you too! Also I want to send the regards and thank to you from my sister. I have thanked her from you, I have bought to her the big book - the full encyclopedia of indoor plants and flowers, the big, thick with color images book of high quality. I know that Elena wanted such book very much already for a long time. She is fond of cultivation of domestic plants. She was very glad to such gift and she thanks you very much! You would see her pleasure! Many thanks to you, my love Eddie, for your care, for your anxiety on me and in general for all that you do for me. Do not worry please about money, for all documents necessary for trip you have sent enough money. When papers will be ready, we shall choose day and I can find out the exact price of tickets and I shall inform to you. I have never been on an airplane before, but I do not worry about flight hardly! My feelings to you and desire to meet you and to be with you so strong that process of flight does not disturb me! I think these 24 hours of flight will fly by very quickly! My dear Eddie, I love you very much! I very much wait for that minute when we shall be together and for ever! With all my love, only your Marina. Letter 27 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! My lovely Eddie, I missed you so very much! To my big regret I have not time to go to the Internet cafe every day after work, I try to visit the Internet cafe as it is possible more often. I want that you knew that you are always in my mind! Even if you have not received the letter from me all the same you are in my heart and I think of you always and I love you very-very-very much!!! My love Eddie I blow my kiss out to the west... it pass over the sea... and cover you with my love!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not want to be without you any longer, I need you very much! Soon we shall together! Today on March, 4, there is 7 days till my documents for trip to you will be ready! I liked this history from your childhood, My dear "Bully Slayer", I am proud of you! You are the best! Especially I liked the end of your history about the happy end! I with pleasure would like to know as much as possible about your childhood and your youth when you will have enough time please write to me about you, it is very interesting to read it and to imagine it. I was a very social kid, unfortunately I cannot find out from my parents about me when I was the little girl but as far as I remember I was a very eccentric kid. I was friends of boys more than with girls. I always liked to participate in various actions, and I did not like to stay at home and to be the good child. But please do not think of me bad, actually I'm a good girl! ;-) I shall necessarily tell to you some of histories of my childhood and my youth but another time because already late and I have to finish my letter. Last times here are many visitors, probablely with a approach of spring they have thawn and have quickened. Last times when I come to the Internet cafe the all computers are occupied and I am compelled to wait while the computer will be exempted. Therefore sometimes I have not enough time. My love Eddie, I am very wait your next letter and hope to hear from you soon!!! With all my love, your Marina. Letter 28 Hello my love Eddie! I'm very glad to hear from you, my Eddie! How is your weekend? Hope fine! I like humour and people having sense of humor, but I think sometimes humor really gets lost in translation. I am very glad that you have such good friend as your brother. I too have my sister - my best girlfriend whom I can tell and entrust all. I write to you this letter and I am overflown with my feelings to you my love Eddie. I write to you the letter, and my soul speaks me, that you are my second half which I so long searched. I am overflown with feelings of love and tenderness to you. You changed my life, you became sense of my further life. I can't live in this world without you, without your attention and caress. I love you, my dearest Eddie! I want to make you the most happy man in the world. I want you were happy and I am sure, that when we will be together I shall make everything that you be happy. I want very much that we never left. I with impatience wait when we will meet face to face and when we will be together. I so much want that my dreams will come true, and I hope it will be very soon and very soon we will be together. I with the huge impatience wait your new letter to me. With all my love, your Marina. Letter 29 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you. I so missed you, my love! I'm so happy, Eddie, I cannot express it only by words! Yesterday after work I went to find out about my visa, Eddie, to me have told that all goes in time and I should come for the ready documents on Friday on March, 11, as it has been planned, it's tomorrow, Eddie! Already tomorrow I shall receive all papers! Today at my work I have taken a compensatory holiday for tomorrow's day that tomorrow all has passed without haste, that I could check up all and then I shall go to the Internet cafe to write to you the letter and I shall inform to you how all has passed, my dear and lovely Eddie!!! Eddie, you think I must have alot on my mind these days about you and your life, but I really have no any questions because I feel that I know you all my life as though we left for some time and soon we shall meet again! I so wait this our meeting! I very wait you go to me and hug me and kiss me for the first time!!! Many thanks to you for your care of me, you are the kindest and magnanimousest man in the world and I do not get tired to repeat it! And certainly I don't think you are crazy for thinking so much about this, I think about this so much too. My Prince Eddie " The Bully Slayer ", I love you very much!!! I am very glad that soon I can to express my feelings to you not only by words but .....!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope to hear from you soon! With love, only your Marina. Letter 30 Hello my dearest Eddie! I have a very good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My documents are ready!!! Eddie, I do not find the words to describe my feelings! Today is one of the happiest days of my life! Soon we will can be together! Now it is necessary to reserve air tickets. As I already wrote to you first I should fly from Krasnodar to Moscow, then from Moscow to you. Tell me please to what city I should fly to Denver or to Aurora? I already wrote the approximate prices of tickets to you, now we should choose the date of my trip to you that I could find out the exact price of tickets. What date of my arrival is more convenient for you? My dear Eddie, as to the last part of my letter, I did mean that except for words we can express our feelings with the help of our eyes, lips, looks, voices, hands, etc. When two persons loving each other are together that they can understand each other without words, sometimes it is enough only a look or a gesture. I think you understand me! It's great idea write a book about our love story some day, It really would be the greatest Love story ever!!! I with impatience wait your letter! With love, only your Marina. P.S.: Thank you very much for the photo, I like them very-very much! Hope you like mine too. Letter 31 Hello my dearest Eddie!!!!! I missed you very much! Unfortunately yesterday I could not visit the the Internet cafe, I'm so glad to hear from you! My love Eddie!!! As to date of the trip when I shall buy the tickets I shall have in view of what thursday March 31 would be the best time and I shall proceed from it at purchase of tickets. I think Monday on March, 21 here (on March, 20 at you) it would be better for reception of money. Tomorrow I shall find out about the exact cost of tickets and then I shall inform to you. I so much love you Eddie! Everything inside of me is wanting and needing you, Eddie. I want to be with you by your side as your helpmate, your soulmate, your everything. I will always stand proud near you, holding your hand, I'll make you proud of me! I want to be with you so much! I imagine, how we are telling to our friends, how we met each other, how fell in love, how I left my home in Russia and came to you in USA... My happiness doesn't have limits. I very much wait time when we shall be together, my love Eddie! I very want that my beloved man would be near me, with whom I could spend evenings and nightes, to meet morning, to speak about yesterday and to dream about tomorrow day. I want to walk and to feel your strong man arm holds me. And soon my dream will come true! With all my love, Only your Marina. Letter 32 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you. My dearest Eddie, I so much missed you! I'm always very much upset when I have no an opportunity to read your letter and to write to you, because of my work or because of a lot of people wishing to use computers here in the Internet cafe. It are necessary to wait for 16 days not including today. I each past day now note on my calendar pending our meeting. I very much want to be near to you and to care of you! I want to spend the rest of my life loving you, caring about you and about our future children, about our home and the family and the family cosiness. As to wedding my girlfriend, I shall not visit their wedding, we are not so close girlfriends with her, we simply studied together at school. We see very seldom but when we meet we certainly talk, we tell each other about the life. I'll necessary tell Elena hello from you and tell my uncle not to worry you give him your word as a man that you will take good care of me. I already spoke him about you and before my departure to you I shall speak with him again, therefore I shall necessarily tell him your words. Eddie, I have to finish, already late. Hope to hear from you soon! ith all my love, only your Marina. Letter 33 Hello my love Eddie!!! I have found out exact cost of air tickets. There were some changes, both good and not so good, the good is that I have found out that I can reach from Krasnodar to Moscow for 100$ instead of for 200$ as I wrote earlier, the not so good is that the prices for tickets have a little raised with approach of spring. But in a result all the same it turns out about the same sum of money little more. I chose the cheapest tickets, below I shall write to you the exact prices including all gathering of the airports, date and time and so on. Krasnodar - Moscow $73 + gathering of the airports: USD73,00 + USD26,00 = USD99,00 Airline: Siberia Airlines Flight: S71146 Departure: on March, 30, 16:50, Krasnodar airport Arrival: on March, 30, 19:05, Domodedovo airport Economic class Time in a way: 2h. 15m. Moscow - Denver $749 + gathering of the airports USD749,00 + USD178,97 = USD927,97 Airline: Lufthansa Flight: LH3189 Departure: on March, 31, 07:05, Sheremetyevo airport Arrival: On March, 31, 08:15, Frankfurt Intl Places: Economic class City of change: Frankfurt Airline: Lufthansa Flight: LH446 Departure: on March, 31, 13:25, Frankfurt Intl Arrival: on March, 31, 14:19, Denver Intl Arpt Places: Economy class Time in a way: 18h. 15m. Also I should spend the night in Moscow as from Krasnodar to Moscow I shall arrive on March, 30 at 19:05 (it's 7:05pm if I am not mistaken), and from Moscow I should take off for Denver at 07:05 the next day (it 07:05am). But in spite of it it's the best variant for us. I am very glad to hear about a birth of small Angel, a birth of the child it's always very pleasure and happy event! Uncle Eddie and Aunt Marina I like the sound of that too and certainly Mommy and Daddy - I like better! I love you, my dear Eddie and soon, very soon we shall be together! I'm so happy, I cannot express it by any words! I with impatience wait your letter! With love, only your Marina. Letter 34 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you!!! Yes, you are right, I should go from the Domodedovo airport to the Sheremetyevo airport and I will need a room in Moscow. I think 300$ will be enough for extra expenses and accordingly 1330$ I think will be enough. Eddie, I too love you very-very much, thank you very much for your help, for your decency, kindness and care!!! I'm so happy, I'm very grateful to destiny that it has acquainted us! In 13 days we shall be together, I have no words how much I wait for this moment and how much I am happy, my dearest Eddie! Last days I do not go, I do fly, I feel that the wings have grown on my back! Eddie, I have to finish, you are always in my mind and my heart! Hope to hear from you soon! With all my love, only your Marina. Letter 35 Hello my dear Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you. How are you? How is your weekend? It is now only 12 days!!!!! Already it is less than in 2 weeks!!!!! I wish you successful training, testing and certifying! I shall be always with you! My dear Eddie, you should not sorry for your questions, you can ask me any questions which interest you and I with pleasure shall answer all your questions. Yes, the flight from Frankfurt will directly to Denver. I think there is no any special process I will go through before entering the U.S., I think it there will be a standard check of documents and luggage. As you know I have never been abroad earlier, I can judge only on that I saw on TV or from words of other people, but I shall necessarily find out about it more in detail. I receive money via Western Union they give me American money and in the same bank I can exchange them for Russian roubles or euro. I think that extra 300 $ I should to exchange for euro because this currency is used both in Moscow and in Frankfurt, then I shall not have to find the exchange office in Frankfurt, but I still shall consult about it before exchanging money. As for a transfering my baggage to the other airport, I precisely do not know, I assume that the airline will do that for me, do not worry please about it I shall necessarily find out it. If I should to transfer my baggage myself to the other airport I shall take a taxi, I shall co-operate with other passengers of my flight that it will be cheaper and quieter. But nevertheless I think that the airline will to transfer my baggage to the other airport for me. If you have any questions else, I shall answer all your questions, my Eddie. I Love You Eddie and I am always thinking of you!!! I have to finish my letter, hope to hear from you soon! With love, only your Marina. Letter 36 Hello my dear Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you. How are you? How is your weekend? It is now only 12 days!!!!! Already it is less than in 2 weeks!!!!! I wish you successful training, testing and certifying! I shall be always with you! My dear Eddie, you should not sorry for your questions, you can ask me any questions which interest you and I with pleasure shall answer all your questions. Yes, the flight from Frankfurt will directly to Denver. I think there is no any special process I will go through before entering the U.S., I think it there will be a standard check of documents and luggage. As you know I have never been abroad earlier, I can judge only on that I saw on TV or from words of other people, but I shall necessarily find out about it more in detail. I receive money via Western Union they give me American money and in the same bank I can exchange them for Russian roubles or euro. I think that extra 300 $ I should to exchange for euro because this currency is used both in Moscow and in Frankfurt, then I shall not have to find the exchange office in Frankfurt, but I still shall consult about it before exchanging money. As for a transfering my baggage to the other airport, I precisely do not know, I assume that the airline will do that for me, do not worry please about it I shall necessarily find out it. If I should to transfer my baggage myself to the other airport I shall take a taxi, I shall co-operate with other passengers of my flight that it will be cheaper and quieter. But nevertheless I think that the airline will to transfer my baggage to the other airport for me. If you have any questions else, I shall answer all your questions, my Eddie. I Love You Eddie and I am always thinking of you!!! I have to finish my letter, hope to hear from you soon! With love, only your Marina. Letter 37 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! First of all I want to apologize that I have kept you waiting, I'm sorry very much, yesterday I have not had time to inform you I have received money, I know that have forced you to worry, I really regret about it very much. Yesterday I planned to go to the Internet cafe in the evening, but I have not had time because of my job. But I have almost settled all affairs at my work, I should go for my work couple of days else and then I already completely can be engaged in gathering for my trip and other necessary affairs for the trip. Today I have decided first of all to go to the Internet cafe to inform you that yesterday the reception of money have passed well without problems. After the Internet cafe I shall go to buy the tickets. Probably today I shall not have time to go again to the Internet cafe and to write to you, I shall write to you tomorrow. Eddie, my love, many thanks to you for your attention and care of me, I am very grateful to you for it! Thank you for the number of your cellular telephone, it's very good that I can call you always and everywhere in case of a delay of flight. I love you Eddie, I with impatience wait for our meeting and to be in your hands, for now I hold you in my heart and my mind! With all my love, only your Marina. Letter 38 Hello my love Eddie!!! How are you? Today I write you in the morning again, last evening there was no time. Therefore you will receive my letter not as usually in the afternoon again. Now 10:00am, I have already settled all affairs and papers at my work, therefore I should not go any more for my job. My dear Eddie, today I have both good news and bad. I do not know with what to start, perhaps better I shall start with good. First I have completely settled all formalities at my work, as I have already told, and now I shall spend all my time for preparation for the trip, one week till our meeting! Second yesterday I have bought tickets, the information is former, I have checked up, all is the same as on tickets. But there is one unpleasant news, yesterday after buying of tickets I found out all formalities of trip, I have received all answers to my questions including about the luggage I should care of my luggage myself because I fly by the economic class, but it is not a problem to move the luggage. Yesterday I have been informed, that according to the law for Citizens of Russia who leave our country by some kinds of visas, including the tourist visas, I am obliged to have a money as confirmation that I have monetary resources. I am obliged to present I have money resources in size as a minimum of 500 dollars. After this formality I shall receive registration. The law obliges me to have money as confirmation, that in your country I shall have money resources for living. Certainly it is only a formality, but nevertheless the law is so and established such sum of money in 500 $. Otherwise they have no right to allow me to go in your country. My love Eddie, I am very upset in this occasion, but on the other hand I understand that there is no time to be upset and it is necessary to solve this question. Eddie, what to do? This money are necessary for me to show only, I should not pay anything, I simply should show these money. This money will stay in an integrity and I shall return them at once. It is very inconvenient for me to ask you about the help once again, but there is no any one to whom I can to address. Eddie, I with impatience wait for your letter. I love you very much and I think all obstacles will be terminated soon and we shall be together and we shall be the happiest people in the world! Hope to hear from you soon! With all my love, only your Marina. Letter 39 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! I just from cash department of the airport, all is not too bad! Today in the early morning I have gone to the cash department of air tickets and I managed to transfer the tickets for later term, they have allowed me to change tickets for April, 5 on the same flight, tickets under the same prices, because there were some seats on this date. Eddie, I have agreed, I do not know how are you about date on April, 5, but I was should give the answer, or yes or no. I very much hope that this date is convenient for you. Yesterday when I wrote to you the letter, tickets have been already bought, because I did not know about such formality as a presence of money resources. I at all did not know what to write to you yesterday in reply to your letter. I felt like awfully because of that I have put you in such inconvenient position, I'm sorry very-very much for it! Eddie, you are the best man in the world and I never thought, I do not think and I shall not think less of you because of this! On the contrary! Today in the early morning I have gone to the cash department to check up the best for us variant - the opportunity to change the ticket for later term. Thank God, appeared that they allow to change the ticket once for later term at presence of empty seats certainly. Now there is no necessity to borrow money or to sell something. I am very grateful to you Eddie for all that you do for me, I'm sorry very much for I distract you from your training and I deliver to you the head efforts. I Love You Very Much! Eddie, I should explain the situation about extra 300 dollars which you have sent me. I cannot show them as my money resources because the check of documents and all other formalities will directly before flight abroad, that is from Moscow to Denver in the Sheremetyevo airport. Before it I should spend the evening and the night in Moscow and I should pay for the taxi from Domodedovo airport to the hotel, for the room and for the meal, then in the morning I should reach from hotel to the Sheremetyevo airport and pay for the taxi, therefore I shall not have any more 300 dollars before registration on flight abroad. Therefore I need in 500 $. My dear Eddie, I'm sorry! I love you, I believe that all will be wonderful as we dreamed! Our love will help us! I with impatience wait your letter! With all my love, only your Marina! Letter 40 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! Now is evening and I have come to the Internet cafe once again, but unfortunately now here there are so many people. I should wait for my turn for a long time, therefore I have asked one woman to give up the place to me for some minutes to read your letter and to write to you the small answer. Thank her for she has agreed. Therefore my dear Eddie, I have no many time now, tomorrow in the morning I shall write to you. Yes, I can alter in the morning tomorrow my air tickets for our former date of a start. Tomorrow, I shall write to you the letter as soon as I shall come back from cash department of the airport. With all my love, only your Marina! Letter 41 Hello my dearest Eddie!!! I'm so happy to hear so good news!I'm so happy that our meeting should not be postponed and we shall meet in 5 days! Yes, certainly I can fly to you on March, 31 as we planned earlier. I would not have an opportunity to transfer the ticket for later term once again, that is I could not transfer since April, 5 for the later term once again. But I can fly to you on March, 31. I hope you understand my explanation, sometimes it's difficultly to explain something in English. My dear Eddie, I very much appreciate your acts, your magnanimity and nobleness has no borders, I admire with you my lovely Eddie!!! I'm a happiest girl in the world that I have met you, that we have grown fond each other and that soon we shall be together and we shall be unseparable in our hearts and souls. I shall wish that your testing has passed successfully, I shall mentally help you! As for a transfer of money Monday is convenient for me. Eddie, tell me please what's the weather there now, that I could be guided about clothes which I should take with. I with impatience wait your letter! With all my heart, only your Marina. Letter 42 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you. How are you? Thank you very much for the picture, I like it! I am glad that you like my photo and thank you for the compliment! Thank you for the fragments of songs, you know I feel the same, I too think every love song was written just for you, you are the only man on earth for me. I love you Eddie!!!!! I am very glad that my man was better at football, I am proud of you, my love!!! It is very interesting game. I like your story about that how you fell asleep at your friends house and has climbed in a window of a bedroom and your mother has found out you on halfway in the window. I have imagined to myself this picture, I think you had unforgettable sensations during that moment! My lovely Eddie, I'm so glad and happy that soon we shall together, that soon I shall be with the best man in the world! You are my prince, we have found each other and soon we shall together! I can't wait this moment! I wait your letter my prince! Unfortunately I have to finish my letter, already late. Hope to hear from you soon! With all my love, only your Marina. Letter 43 Hello my love Eddie!!! I all the time think of you and about our meeting, I so wait this moment! This day will be one of the happiest and unforgettable days in my life. Interestingly who are first of us will see each other. Now I write you the letter and the smile of happiness does not go from my face, I'm so happy, Eddie! Thank you for the explanations about weather and clothes. Last night my sister and my uncle came to me to find out how my affairs and when I precisely leave are. I have told them about our plans. My sister will go to see off me in the Krasnodar airport, I am very glad that she has offered me her help and encouragement. My uncle has told that he too will try to come to see off me if he can ask for leave from his job. He asked to say to you his words of gratitude, I have told to him about all that you do for me, he has told he will not worry about me if I shall be near to such man as you. He very much would like to get acquainted with you personally and to shake your hand. And he hopes that sometime in the near future it will be come true. Also he has told to me many different manuals as how I should behave, what I should make and what I should not make, in general I have got used to his manuals, in fact he replaced my father to me to a certain extent. Eddie, I finish my letter and I go home to gather my things, clothes. I love you and I await your letter. With all my love, only your Marina. P.S. I have understood from your letter, that you could overcome exam. I very much am glad for you. Tell to me as all was!!!! I have understood you. I should visit the western union tomorrow in the afternoon and if money there is not present on Tuesday. It for me not a problem. As soon as I shall receive this money I at once I shall inform to you. I have understood that a name of your brother Jeff. At me one question, a surname of your brother too Trujillo??? If I understand correctly all, in the western union I should write name Edward Trujillo or Jeff Trujillo?!! Ok, I have understood all!!! Letter 44 Hello my love Eddie!!! I'm very glad to hear from you! Today I all the day long was engaged in gathering for the trip, 3 days till our meeting! I'm so excited! Eddie, today in the morning I have not had time to go to the bank to check up whether there has come a remittance, because I were should clean and wash some of my clothes and that it has dried up till tomorrow and that I could take them with myself. And now before going to the Internet cafe I has gone to the bank in the western union, but unfortunately they had some technical malfunctions with their computer. They promised that it is not for a long time, for a pair of hours and that today by the evening will be already possible to come to receive a remittance. But better tomorrow in the morning I shall go to the western union and already for certain I shall receive money and then at once I shall go to the Internet cafe and I shall inform to you how all has passed. My dearest Eddie, I'm so excited, I cannot put into my feelings words! The day after tomorrow I already take off from Krasnodar to Moscow, then I shall spend the night in Moscow and next day I meet you, my love Eddie!!! Likely I shall cannot sleep during last night because of excitation because of a forthcoming meeting! I so wait it! All my ideas and my dreams only about it! With all my love, only your Marina. Krasnodar - Moscow Airline: Siberia Airlines Flight: S71146 Departure: on March, 30, 16:50, Krasnodar airport Arrival: on March, 30, 19:05, Domodedovo airport Time in a way: 2h. 15m. Moscow - Denver Airline: Lufthansa Flight: LH3189 Departure: on March, 31, 07:05, Sheremetyevo airport Arrival: On March, 31, 08:15, Frankfurt Intl City of change: Frankfurt Airline: Lufthansa Flight: LH446 Departure: on March, 31, 13:25, Frankfurt Intl Arrival: on March, 31, 14:19, Denver Intl Arpt Time in a way: 18h. 15m.