This is a collection of emails between my wife and I when I was chasing after her for the better part of two years while I was either stranded on a boat, or in Central America, or on an Island named Oahu. I was a newly enlisted Coastguard Seaman and met Maggie again while I was briefly home visiting my parents before heading to my new station assignment in Hawaii (my dream location). We had a great night out and I somehow convinced her to give me her phone number.

I would call her from time to time, mostly when it was winter in Minnesota to rub it in that I was standing in the ocean on a beach and it was 85 degrees out and sunny, just like the day before was. It got to the point that I could not get Maggie out of my head and we started to talk more and more. When I we would head out on a patrol, they lasted 3-4 months long that we would be sailing from port to port. Maggie and I would write emails back and forth casually when I was sailing. Finally when I was restricted to the ship for a few minor infractions, I found I had some free time in my hands. Oddly enough I become very creative after 3 redbulls, 10 cups of coffee, oh yeah and a couple redbulls. We started to write more and more and I fell head over heels in love with Maggie, and I decided that I would do my best to be as witty as possible to marry the most awesome woman ever.
As Maggie and I read this before we published this, We both were a bit concerned with how "raw this is", but we did not change much except for a few names. Maggie and I are so happy together because we both knew what we were getting into. We were able to learn so much about each other because all we had was email. I was completely honest with her because honestly, I thought I had no chance of ever dating Maggie, let alone marrying her. But this book will show that Honesty works every time. And hopefully you will purchase this book because if you are craving something real and unedited, censored, or cleaned up. Granted some of this is going to annoy you, but it is a compilation of my honest thoughts and I am pretty sure we all have thoughts that will annoy someone. Some of this is tough for me to stomach that it is going to be out there, but this coincides with something that I am going to start now and work really hard in 2012 to maintain. Keeping everything honest, what a thought huh? My honest words were able to get me the woman of my dreams, the hard part is done, anything is attainable now. Today being honest is the counter culture.