This story is so tragic, and it had me laughing my ass off. Other people’s troubles… you know.
45 year old Scott Napper took his mail order Filipino girl friend, 22 year old Leafil Alforque, to Proposal Rock on the Oregon coast. He was about to ask her to marry him, when a rogue wave swept her out to sea. The body has not been recovered.
“She only weighed 93 pounds,” I told the Karaoke Queen. “He should have tied her off to a rock.”
Leafil had only been in the U.S. three days.
After Myrna’s death, I searched the mail order bride websites in an unsuccessful attempt to find her double. There never will be another Myrna. It took me a few years to accept that. I stared at every diminutive Asian woman I passed on the street in the hope that I would find Myrna in her, but it was not to be.
I did meet a bunch of very sweet Filipinas on the websites. We’d chat and look at each other through the webcams. They were all younger than 25. They pleaded with me to send them the airfare for the trip to America.
It’s a crap shoot, bringing such a young woman over to the U.S. You don’t know what you’re getting until the day she arrives.
“He should take another trip to the Phils,” the Queen laughed, “and get another one.”
That’s a picture of Proposal Rock at the top of this post. I’ve been there… with Myrna. It is a profoundly beautiful, romantic spot.
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