![]() ![]() While I’d like to think my relationship would have survived nine months apart even if video chat hadn’t been around, there’s no way to know for sure. It gave me the chance to spend hours talking with my boyfriend face-to-face – even though we lived more than 200 miles apart. I don’t remember the company’s name, and I’m sure it’s long-since gone extinct and been replaced by newer evolutions, but back then it opened up my world in ways I’d never dreamed possible. ![]() Thankfully, that changed when a peer introduced me to a free online video chatting company. He’s my husband now – so it all worked out – but back then we needed to be able to get to know one another in a world that seemed stacked against us. I was trying to maintain a long-distance relationship with my boyfriend, but our time to talk was limited due to his packed baseball schedule, my two jobs, and, most of all, the fact that we’d only dated for a month before heading to separate schools. As a freshman in college in the year 2000, I remember struggling mightily to pay my 400-minute monthly cell phone bill.
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