'WOMAN SAVES MAN'S LIFE WHILE CHATTTING ON LIGHTFOOT WEB SITE.'
Toronto (CP)- A transatlantic couple plans to invite Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to their wedding after one of them saved the life of the other while chatting on a Web site devoted to the folksy musician.
Engineer John Fowles of Sherborne, a village of 9,000 in Dorset, England, was in a chat room with fellow Lightfoot devotee Susan Harrigan of New-Jersey when his typing became irregular.
"My leg had been funny all day, and my left arm, and that night we had a regular chat session going." Fowles said this week from Dorset County Hospital.
Harrigan, a social worker and former stroke rehabilitation worker, knew something was wrong with Fowles, who lived in Montreal for six years and is a Canadian citizen.
"She said it sounds like you've had a stroke. You better get to the hospital or phone a doctor,'" Fowles recalled.
"She knew the phone number of my best friend here and she threatened to phone him and wake him up in the middle of the night if I didn't do what she said," he said.
Fowles called a nearby emergency ward and was admitted that night to hospital, where a scan confirmed Harrigan's diagnosis. He's been recovering there ever since.
When Harrigan flew to England to visit her cyberspace companion, Fowles, who turned 59 last week, proposed marriage.
The couple- who met last November in Toronto while attending a Lightfoot concert - want to invite the renowned musician to their nuptials, planned for late June.
"It would be fantastic, wouldn't it?" said Fowles, who became a fan of Lightfoot after seeing the singer in a Montreal coffee shop during Expo'67.
Lightfoot is on tour in the northeast United States and couldn't be reached for comment.
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Taken from: The Moncton Times & Transcript... Moncton New-Brunswick. CANADA.
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