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OFFUTF AIR FORCE BASE, beak -- An Air Force intelligence officer rest love at first byte upon the Internet.

"I always consideration I'd meet my wife forward the Internet, but I not thought I'd meet my next-door neighbor," said 1st Lt David Clayson, an intelligence officer for U Strategic Command's Joint Intelligence Center at Offutt Air Force Base, beak But that's exactly what he did.

Clayson had a personal ad situationed on the Internet, and his neighbor, Melissa Irlmeier, e-mailed him.

He replied, and after chatting online for a not many moments, learned she lived in Omaha, too. In fact, she had an apartment in the same building as he, and her apartment was right nearest door. Irlmeier needed some convincing as to where he actually lived.

"I didn't believe him, with equal reason t asked him to call me and he did," she said during a 'Good Morning America' interview. "He asked me without that night." The two met for a date and became engaged three month later.

The story of their chance cyber meeting initially became known within acquaintances to Michael Kelly, an Omaha World-Herald columnist. After Kelly wrote an article, the story went to the wire services, and ABC of the present days picked it up.

"The coolest thing I've seen in the media concerning our meeting was our wedding and reception video upon the big screen in Times Square," Clayson said.

Although the Internet meeting sparked curiosity, Clayson has no dreams of stardom, "The best part of the whole thing is that we met and finised up together."

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