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Same-name couple to wed after Facebook meeting
Assoc. Press ^ | 07/22/2009 | By SARAH LARIMER

Posted on 07/22/2009 12:30:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

MIAMI (AP) -- This October, Kelly Hildebrandt will vow to share her life with a man who already shares her name.

This is no joke. Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt, 20, and Kelly Carl Hildebrandt, 24, expect just over 100 guests at a ceremony at the Lighthouse Point Yacht & Racquet Club in South Florida, where they will become husband and wife.

"He is just everything that I've ever looked for," she said in an interview. "There's always been certain qualities that a guy has to have. And he has all the ones I could think of - and more."

Their modern romance was a match made in cyberspace. She was curious and bored one night last year, so she plugged her name into the popular social networking Web site Facebook just to see if anyone shared it.

At the time, Kelly Hildebrandt, of Lubbock, Texas, was the only match.

So she sent him a message.

"She said 'Hi. We had the same name. Thought it was cool,'" Kelly Carl Hildebrandt said. "I thought she was pretty cute."

But there were also concerns.

"I thought, man, we've got to be related or something," he said.

For the next three months the two exchanged e-mails. Before he knew it, occasional phone calls turned into daily chats, sometimes lasting hours. He visited her in Florida after a few months and "fell head over heels."

"I thought it was fun," he said of that first online encounter. "I had no idea that it would lead to this."

Months after Kelly Hildebrandt sent her first e-mail, she found a diamond engagement ring hidden in treasure box on a beach in December.

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To: hoosier hick

I good friend of mine named Teresa, goes by Terry, married a guy named Gary. Their last name is Terry. So, my friend is now Terry Terry married to Gary Terry. I’m not joking either.


21 posted on 07/22/2009 1:11:32 PM PDT by Hatheos
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

Awesome reply. ROTFLMAO


22 posted on 07/22/2009 1:12:05 PM PDT by Hatheos
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To: Hatheos

What about Marcy Darcy from Married with Children?


23 posted on 07/22/2009 1:28:09 PM PDT by Married with Children
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To: Responsibility2nd

He should change his middle name to Katrina.


24 posted on 07/22/2009 1:35:29 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Disgusting, appalling, horrendous, assinine....oh wait, same NAME marriage...nevermind


25 posted on 07/22/2009 1:35:43 PM PDT by Jack Wilson
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To: Responsibility2nd

There is a friend of my parents who was given the option of choosing his name when he was 5 years old. He chose the name “Laura”. He grew up to marry a lady named “Billie”.


26 posted on 07/22/2009 1:39:32 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Bush was the dumbest sounding smart President, and Obama is the smartest sounding dumb President.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I figured it would come to this once same sex marriage was allowed.

Same name...


27 posted on 07/22/2009 1:48:25 PM PDT by Elpasser
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To: Responsibility2nd
"...And he has all the ones I could think of - and more."

I'm pretty sure I have all the qualities anyone could think of - and more."

28 posted on 07/22/2009 2:04:28 PM PDT by Egon (The difference between Theory and Practice: In Theory, there is no difference.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This makes sense to me. Have you ever stood in line at a driver’s license office?


29 posted on 07/22/2009 2:12:23 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I bet this couple will soon be going by Carl and Katrina.

Sounds like a pair of hurricanes.
30 posted on 07/22/2009 2:16:29 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (GOP: Stop listening, start doing -- we need new leaders!)
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To: Married with Children

I forgot about her. Funny.


31 posted on 07/22/2009 2:36:22 PM PDT by Hatheos
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To: F15Eagle; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; earlJam

And they can save on stationery, too!


32 posted on 07/22/2009 3:52:02 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: hoosier hick

Judy Juday...

33 posted on 07/22/2009 4:02:22 PM PDT by csvset
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34 posted on 07/22/2009 4:06:12 PM PDT by x
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