She was born in the United Kingdom in the 1970s while he was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, in the 1950s. She was a globe-trotting journalist in China, while he was a highway construction engineer in Alaska. She was a published author, an authority on chess and fluent in Russian. He was a Tourettes syndrome sufferer and fluent in profanity. but according to a story in the Anchorage Daily News, which in 2007 highlighted the unlikely hook-up, Sarah Hurst, 34, and Jon Savage, 52, fell in love six years ago while living 4,000 miles apart.
The pair met through a worldwide Internet dating service. Sarah, in Beijing, got in touch with Jon, in Anchorage, after scrutinizing a small amount of positive particulars in his personal outline, like his interest in reading, writing and lifelong learning, his yearning to travel, his love of cooking. In the introductory communication that developed, Sarah observed that Jon didn’t try to cover or exaggerate the crucial essentials of his being, like his job with the Department of Transportation, his tests as a single dad, his four kids, his teenage son with autism, according to the Daily News.
Friends and family had warned her about...