Photographer Jena Cumbo and writer Gina Tron have captured the stories of couples who met online .
Cora and Will, Craigslist.
Cora and Will met on Craigslist, but not on the dating section – they found love on the “free stuff” section.
“I'd just moved to New York and didn't have any furniture. Plus I hardly knew anybody. Will posted free movie tickets that he won online,” says Cora.
During their email conversation about the tickets, she noticed in Will's email signature a link to his graphic art and illustration website. She complimented his work, which led to a Skype conversation where they discussed art and why she moved to New York.
A week later they agreed to meet at a coffee shop. Cora waited for fifty minutes and almost left, before Will arrived. “I actually had to run most of the way to meet her because I took a cab that got stuck in traffic. I got out of it early and ended up walking in the wrong direction.”
Cora claims that there were “no sparks at all. He seemed like a cool guy, but I just got out of a crazy relationship and was not interested at all to meet somebody in a romantic way.” She was mostly looking for friends. Will agrees he felt no spark but admits that he “did check out her legs when she wasn't looking.”
After hanging out a few times, Will was helping Cora assemble furniture at her apartment and she asked him to stay for dinner. “I realised for the first time that I didn't want him to leave, I enjoyed spending time together and having him around. So I told him and he stayed.”
They quickly after began dating seriously. A few months later, Cora was pregnant. Six months after that, they got married at Brooklyn City Hall. They now have two children.
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Katie and Edison, Omegle.
In 2012, Katie was a photo student in Atlanta. She was at school, waiting for a photo processing to happen. Bored, and alone, she visited Omegle, a site similar to Chatroulette that connects strangers at random. There were two ways of communicating on the site: video and text. “I didn’t want to do video,” says Katie, “because you never know what is going to show up.” She kept messaging random people until she found Edison who was living in New York.
Initially they talked to each other because they were bored. “I think we were both kind of making fun of each other for being on the site. The first thing we talked about was Vampire Weekend,” she says.
Their first date was when Katie flew to New York to visit Edison. He picked her up at LaGuardia airport. “It was really good,” Edison says of their first meeting. “I admit I was a little scared.” Katie says their first meeting was awkward and surreal. “I was quiet. I was trying to keep calm so that I looked cool. I wanted to appeal to him so much.”
After seven or eight months of dating, Katie moved to New York to live with Edison.
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Alice and David, OK Cupid.
Alice, 40, messaged David, 46, on OK Cupid back in the summer of 2011. He responded a few days later. Alice had wanted a bicycle and David’s profile indicated he was good at helping people pick out bikes. “She mentioned she was looking for a bike,” he says. “She wasn’t very specific. I made some suggestions of bikes, kind of baiting to see if she’d want me to go along and look.”
Instead, Alice went ahead and just bought one of the bikes David suggested. “David offered to check out the bike for me.” They met up in person and become serious fairly quickly. They rode bikes to Roberta’s Pizza in Bushwick, Brooklyn, for their first date.
“Two months later, Alice asked to move in. Five months after we met, we were living together,” he says. They did a lot of outdoorsy stuff together, but not so much now after the birth of five-month-old Max Mercury. When he was two months old, they took him out for a road trip.
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George (left) and Steve, Craigslist.
George and Steve found each other on Craiglist's men4men section. In their first conversation, they realised they lived on the same block in Harlem, New York. They met up the next day and started hanging out.
George says of Steve: “He was very kind and gentle, good looking and tall. And he had a wicked sense of humor.”
Steve credits George for transforming him into an animal lover. “I was never into [animals]. He had an animal kingdom made up of a dog and a cat and now I love animals like crazy.”
After three years of dating, they moved in together and got married at City Hall. “We did the discount marriage, which was just the way we wanted to do it,” says Steve. They said they may someday do a more formal ceremony but would rather spend money on more “important things”.
They both love the beach and swimming in the ocean, which explains why they moved from NYC to Florida in August, to a place with an ocean view. The couple have never been shy about explaining how they met. They also found their dog, Monster, a Maltese-terrier cross, on Craigslist.
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