I am a long time lurker and seen how the reddit community can do miracles, so pls grant this wish of mine.

This is my story:

I met her on Celtic Heroes (yell out to everyone on it!). We were in the same clan.

3 August 2015 was the day we first talked on kik (an instant messaging platform).

And flirted.

Then as is the nature of all sappy love story, feelings developed.

The twist then was: I am a female playing as a dude.

She didnt know about my gender. I didnt tell her too. But realizing that the cat needs to be let out of the bag before we fall in too deep, I came clean with my gender: "Gwen (name changed for protection), I'm a female--

--and I will understand if after hearing this, you choose not to talk to me anymore."

She was hysterical and upset and hurt and took to drinking. Said I succeeded in being her highest point and lowest point, and didnt want to talk to me. For a day. Then sobered up and realized that the person she fell for didnt change. The gender (and granted, looks) might have changed, but I'm still me, I'm still Cheryl. Thus with her ever gracious and open heart and mind, she gave me another chance.

We were head over heels for each other. Things couldnt have been sweeter then. A same gender love story with an insanely gorgeous and witty woman. I am crazy madly deeply in love with her, despite never meeting her in person. We skyped though, made plenty of videos calls every day until we fell asleep just so we can spend each minute seeing and hearing each other.We even got ourselves a couple Lord of The Ring matching pendant rings with our initials carved into it. Hell! An age gap of 6 years proves unobstructed in our path. The 15hrs time differences -- peanuts! -- we will just wake up earlier and sleep later so as to spend more time with each other. We were crazy for each other.

But then, reality strikes back. School started for her, and apart from that, she has work and rents and bills and laundries to worry about. We spent lesser time together, but our love is still strong.

Then she made an academical switch to programming, which took up even more of her time. The daily vid calls stopped and texts went down to an hour or lesser each day. But we still try our best to perservere on.

But time and distance are scary things..

Then one day, a pair of close couple friends broke up. And something about the break must have reasonated with Gwen because it led to 'Le Talk'.

Gwen: [Gist of Le Talk] You can find the right person but if its the wrong time then its best not to push for it because it might not work and that pain could be unbearable.

We broke up. I was inconsolable. The person that promised eternity together chose to give up on the relationship instead of trying to make things work. I bawled my eyes out and lost a couple of eyelashes by dabbing my eyelids sore with tissues, meals wouldnt stay in the tummy, and my fever decided to be the unwanted house guest. Nothing interests me and my life feels grey and bleak.

Is this what a heartbreak feels like?

But ultimately, do I want to continue crying, feeling sorry for myself when I did nothing to turn this fate around? Am I going to just give up like this without a fight? Is this what loving someone means? Throwing in the towel because its the easiest way out?

I refuse to let it just end this way. So I beg, I plead, I pray and entreat to the mighty internet and reddit users, please help me woo my heart back. If you can please help fund a Singapore to Albuquerque plane trip, so I can convince my soul that love conquers all. PLEASE. I would be ever so full of grattitude!

And in spirit of reddit:

TL;DR Met girl in game. I am playing as dude in game. Found out, heartbroken but gave me chance. Madly in love. Time and distance proves too much. Broke up. Need funds for plane ride to woo my heart back.