I met Richard Mark on Singleparent.com. We exchanged email addresses and began chatting on Yahoo messenger. He told me he was currently in Lagos West Africa doing an exhibition of his art works with his daughter Jessica, 8 yrs old.
In our conversations over the following 3-4 weeks, he described his life as follows. He had lived his first 15 years in Greece then moved to New York, went to school at San Diego State U. Then back to New York and then to Lake Forest, Ill after the divorce and ultimately death of his ex-wife. He said that he and his daughter had been alone for as long as he could remember. His father had died 7 years prior, his mother had moved to Greece. He has no siblings, or extended family and no friends.
He sent me many pictures of himself and very kind emails on almost a daily basis. He said the nicest things and was very quick to start using pet names like "sweetie" and "Honey".
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