The biggest scam I ever pulled - And got away with!

So the story begins in March of 1992. I had just graduated boot camp in Orlando, FL (US Navy) and was walking across the base to my barracks I would reside in while in school. Half way to the barracks I froze stiff and had a vision of a redheaded vixen named Angela Marie Cannataro. I knew tons about her before we met and to this day am not sure how. When I could walk again I proceeded to the barracks and walked in. There are the quartermaster's desk she sat. Doing paperwork. I walked in called her by name and she looked at me as if "how the hell does he know me".

Later that night I was leaving the barracks heading to the E-Club (Enlisted Bar on Base) and she was outside with her then boyfriend smoking. She saw me again and dumped him on the spot and followed me. By the time I was about 1/3rd the way to the E-Club she was beside me holding my hand like we had known each other for years.

Two weeks later I rented out the E-Club, had the jukebox cued to play Forever and Ever Amen by Randy Travis and then sent her ex-boyfriend to the barracks to drag her to the bar blindfolded so I could propose to her. Half the base was there and she had no idea.

Needless to say she screamed "yes" and leaped on to the stage and kissed me. A few short weeks later she got shipped to San Diego and I was shipped to Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was during Desert Storm so the Navy wouldn't give either of us leave to go see the other.

Things were strained and when I finally got out of the Navy and got to California to be with her it didn't go well. We broke up a few days before we were supposed to get married in December of 1993.

For 16 years we didn't see each other or talk to each other. Then in 2009 I found her on Facebook and sent her a message. Two weeks later she moved from Salt Lake City, UT to Texas to live with me. In 2010 we got a nice (and expensive) apartment together in Richardson, TX where I proposed to her again.

On October 10, 2010 we were finally married, after 19 years since we first met. Things went down hill fast after the wedding, we lost everything and moved to Utah to live with a friend of hers while we got back on our feet. I worked the entire time we were married but we could never pay the bills. If I made $10 she spent $50. Then in 2012 we split up and she went to live with her mom in California.

A few months later she moved to Nashville, TN and we started trying to work things out....or so I thought. When I found out she had a boyfriend in Nashville that she professed to love I filed for divorce, on our wedding anniversary nonetheless; Oct 10, 2013!

In December 2013 our divorce was finalized. When I walked out of the court room I texted her "Congratulations you are a free woman" and she instantly replied "Woohoo when you coming to celebrate with me?". Well since I still had stuff of hers I drove up there the next day and we had the best sex we had ever had in 20 years of knowing each other.

That was the last time I saw her and have only spoken to her once since then. However, I check her facebook every few months to make sure she is doing Okay. Then about 2 months ago, I noticed her Facebook page had a post about her not being able to marry the man she loves. The boyfriend from earlier in this post. The one she had been engaged to for over 3 years.

I knew instantly why! He wouldn't marry her because she was still in love with me. So I arranged for a mutual friend of ours to contact her and tell her that I had died of a heart attack a few months earlier. This was an easy sale because while her and I were together I had 3 heart attacks. I have a naturally enlarged heart as well as Multiple Sclerosis and Neuropathy so any kind of stress will trigger a heart attack. Fortunately for me they don't do any lasting damage, just hurts like a mother.

Well two hours after the friend told her I was dead she contact another friend of ours and told them they had finally set a date for June 26th, 2017. That was yesterday!

So I stalked her Facebook today and guess what, he finally married her. So I sent her a message on Facebook and Twitter today saying: "Congratulations on your wedding, may you find the happiness you deserve!". Much to my surprise (okay not really) she blocked me on Facebook and Deleted the Tweet.....or her new husband did one!

Now you may be wondering something like:

• What the hell is wrong with you?
• Why in the hell would you do this?
• Do you hate her that much?

Well it is simple, she was the love of my life.. I loved her before we met and will until long after I am dead. However, we did not work together in any way, shape, form or fashion. Mainly because the entire time we where together she wouldn't take her meds (and boy did she need them) nor would she work. Which lead to constant episodes of Bi-Polar (Manic Depression); which in turn led to her never being happy, even when she got exactly what she said she wanted. Then there was the issue of her repeatedly flipping out, beating me and then calling the cops and telling them I tried to kill her. Every time she did it they took her away, twice to the Mental Hospital and the last time (when we split up) to a Motel.

Now I would be lying if I said I wasn't hurt and that some small part of me didn't want revenge. Truth is I did! However, I am not that kind of person. I truly want her to be happy and she has now been with this guy longer than anyone she has ever been with (at one time). If you count the two times we were together we had 6 years, but not continuous. Her longest continuous relationship was with me the second time and it lasted 4 years (with 1 year of separation). She has been with this guy for 4 years now.

It was my hope that she would get married and be happy with this guy and that he could do what I couldn't and keep her happy.

So why did I tell her the day after her wedding I wasn't dead? Well it is simple, being dead sucks! I had to stop contact with all our mutual friends, which sucks. Plus the dead is done, they are married.....she has moved on now.....no longer any need for me to be dead.

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