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Article: Dwarfs: a love story.(romance at the annual convention of the Little People of America, Atalnta, GA)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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ONCE A YEAR, THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF AMERICA MEET IN CONVENTION REFUGEES FROM A WORLD OF OBLIVIOUS GIANTS. THIS YEAR, MICHAEL AND MEREDITH AND EVELYN AND JOCELYN ARE ALL LOOKING FOR A MIRACLE.
This is the jam Michael Gilden has gotten himself into: Five months ago, in a chat room on America Online, he met a girl named Meredith Hope Eaton, a judge's daughter from Long Island who is funny and smart and really pretty, too--he knows because they traded pictures on the Internet. So they wrote tons of e-mail and talked on the phone, and one day he even sang to her--"Open Arms," by Journey, his favorite band--and finally he convinced her to come to Atlanta to meet him in ...