Close the window Love of My Love (Happy Story of Georgi and Inna Parker) “Dear Natasha,      I would like to contribute my story to your collection of true stories and share the wonderful love my wife and I have for one another.  We have been married almost eight very happy and wonderful years and have known each other almost ten years. We met through a university writing exchange program and corresponded through fax, telephone and letter for almost two years.  Through this imperfect means of communication, our love grew.  When I deplaned in Moscow for the first time, I immediately recognized Inna. It was as though we had known each other much longer; I knew I had met my future wife.  A whirlwind of trips back and forth followed, as well as telephone calls, faxes and many, many letters.  We finally arranged for her to travel to the United States to visit late in the same year.  By the end of Inna's Visa, we decided to get married.  Inna returned to Moscow two days later to put her affairs in order and make plans to return.  I traveled to Moscow about six months later to convert to Russian Orthodoxy and to be married in the Orthodox church.  I took the name Georgi and cherish the Russian faith and way of life.  This is much the way we maintain our lives now.  Inna received her Permanent Resident Alien status finally in Sept. 1995, after almost one year of marriage.  It was very painful for us not to be together the entire time.  All through these years, our love has endured and exponentially grown.  There was to be sure a small adjustment period, but we are both flexible and support each other's shortcomings to the point that we are perfectly suited. Inna is my wife, lover and best friend.  We are well adjusted and secure with ourselves.  We love each other without reservation and hate to be apart from each other for any length of time.  Our love is proof that international marriages do work.  It does not matter where each spouse comes from; when one meets the right person, then it is known immediately.  Inna is my love of all life. “     Georgi and Inna Parker