Nov 14, 2008 7:00 am US/Pacific
UK Couple To Divorce Over Virtual 'Home Wrecker'
LONDON (AP) ―
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Second Life enables players to create online lives in which their virtual alter ego can do about anything, including shopping, buy properties, develop relations and more.
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British newspapers say an Internet affair in the online community Second Life has shattered a real-life marriage in England.
Reports say 28-year-old Amy Taylor and 40-year-old David Pollard of Newquay in southwest England split after she spotted her husband's online alter-ego cuddling with a virtual home wrecker.
Second Life
enables players to create online lives in which their virtual alter
ego, or avatar, can socialize, develop relationships, buy property and
set up businesses in an imagined world using the game's virtual
currency, reports Reuters.
But while the couple's flesh and blood marriage has disintegrated, both say they are still looking to the Internet for love.
According to the Reuters report, Taylor and Pollard met in an internet chatroom in 2003 and married in real life and in a fantasy tropical setting in Second Life.
Taylor was quoted by newspapers including The Guardian and The Times of London on Friday as saying she has found a new man in an alternative cyber universe, World of Warcraft.
Pollard says he is already virtually engaged and can't wait to marry his new fiance "in rl" -- short for "real life."
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