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Life imitates art. (Well, muzak, anyway)

18 Sep 2007 09:23 am

Remember that Rupert Holmes song about the guy who's tired of his relationship, so he answers a personals ad

If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. If you're not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain. If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape. I'm the lady you've looked for, write to me, and escape.

Only to find out, when the woman shows up, that it's his current squeeze?

In the song, they run off together. In real life, apparently it doesn't work out so well.

Sana Klaric, 27, and husband Adnan, 32, from Zenica, poured out their hearts to each other over their marriage troubles, and both felt they had found their real soul mate.

The couple met on an online chat forum while he was at work and she in an internet cafe, and started chatting under the names Sweetie and Prince of Joy.

They eventually decided to meet up - but there was no happy ending when they realised what had happened.

Now they are both filing for divorce - with each accusing the other of being unfaithful.

(h/t Radley Balko, who points out that Ananova is not always a reliable source.)

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Justice is blind, it seems. As I recall the article, he said that he was quite thrilled with meeting this woman with whom he'd had a lovely correspondance with. She was so kind and appreciative of his wit. When he found out it was his wife, he said his wife hadn't said a kind thing to him in over a year.

Perceptions and downright filters can change what we think, incredibly. So when you read about Hillary-care, realize you may like it because it came from her (regardless of its merits), or you don't like it...because it came from her.

And so our personal and professional relationships are a tiny bit warped, at times.

Falkoyn wins the internet for (logically) tuning a post about life imitating art and turning it into a post about heath care.

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