On other occasions they invited members of the website who might be in the area or traveling through to join in. This was not particularly frequent, for aside from the mere logistical matters of arranging all requisite blood tests, coordinating everyone’s schedules, and whatnot, first the couple had to spend quite a bit of time on the social matters of getting to know the potential guests through private e-mails, the exchange of pictures, and whatnot—because simply being a paying member of the website did not guarantee that Samantha would want to meet that person oh-so literally in the flesh. Still, these special events were something to which everybody looked forward. Sometimes they hosted some amiable, perhaps shy middle-aged man who wished for nothing more than to climb between the buxo
