This is a Lovers Lock. If you’d like to submit your own love story -and maybe have me create a personalized lock that will be added to Toronto’s Lover’s Fence- please read more about submitting here. Of course, you can always go and add your own. Toronto’s Lover’s Fence encloses Grange Park, the park behind the Art Gallery Of Ontario.

Mark’s Love Story:

hey Post
Here is my love story. Sorry about the cheese-factor:
I met my wife on the internet. It wasn’t through some lameass dating service, we both were not looking for love. Instead we were looking to trade mix-cds. I found her thread on a message board. I thought her music choices seemed ineteresting, and replied that I would totally trade cds with her. We began to email each other about the trade, and over the course of some back and forth we came up with a challenge:
who could come up with a sadder mix-cd?
We then sent numerous emails back and forth boasting about how depressed our music makes us. These emails carried on for months.
It just so happened that we had the perfect opportunity to trade cd’s in person. I was in her city with my band, and she interviewed us for her radio show, and came out to our performance. She let the band sleepover at her place. Jen and I stayed up all night, mostly thumb-warring. I looked over her mix cd when she gave it to me: turns out we had both made a ‘happy’ cd to go along with the sad. Though one song she put on her happy cd had almost made the cut for my sad.

I can still remember the first time I listened to her cd. I was taking a bath the day after the allnighter, still too swoony to sleep. I hit play and it washed over me. The music pulled in my chest, sad as fuck, and it never let go.

When I proposed to her five years later I gave her a mix cd case. She opened it up and there was no cd, just a 25 cent ring and the words: Will you marry me? Please?

Hope you like it. Keep up the goodwork

Mark