And they claim they’re foreign born, which helps explain the accent and grammar. They’re attractive, but not to the point of drawing suspicion. They’re affectionate, validating and incredibly attentive. Someone reaches out, often on a dating site or social media. “And I was having some back problems at the time, and he said, ‘What are you doing to take care of yourself?’ It was really just slowly developing into this wonderful relationship.”īut just a few weeks later, it all started. “He's asking about my kids,” Deborah said. He had rented an apartment near her in Manhattan Beach, California, and he would soon be home. He said he had one last job to do in Canada and then he would be home for good and they’d have time to find out about each other. Five years ago, he and his young daughter moved to New York to be near his mother and take over his father’s logging business. He was married to his first love for 35 years before she died of cancer. He told her he was born and raised in Madrid. “Bernard” was attentive, caring and a widower himself. “So, somebody suggested to go online through a dating service … and this guy’s pictures shows up and he’s just you know, no George Clooney, nothing gorgeous, but in fact, he had a resemblance to my husband.”įor Deborah, who was in her late 60s and looking to start over after the loss of her husband, it was a perfect storm. “I was missing not having him here to talk about, you know, what was going on in the world and everything,” Deborah said. He was 66, somewhat attractive and looked uncannily like Deborah’s late husband who died just months before the pandemic hit. “Deborah” fell hard when she met her Spanish lumberjack on a dating site in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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