A love story: Jackie Riley and Joanie Callahan were teenage sweethearts selected "class couple" in the Gillingham High School senior yearbook of 1957. Jackie is on the verge of publishing his first novel, "Buddy O'Brien and The Oak Street Chronicles" when he stumbles upon the Classmates.com website and discovers that, like himself, Joanie is into her second marriage and is living just over the New Hampshire/Maine line, only a few hours from his home in Massachusetts. Joanie (a school teacher) sends her first emails to Jackie from her school computer. Eventually, she gets her own computer and emails from home. There is growing pleasure and delight as they bathe in the comfort and unrestrained intimacy they have found once again. Their physical desires build rapidly, but getting to know each other anew under the weight of the vastly different lives they have led, is a much slower and complex process, beset with all sorts of obstacles. They meet several times that first year and into the second year continue to communicate through Instant Messaging until reality sets in and they are forced to contend with the deeper issues of duty/loyalty, different religious, political and philosophical outlooks, and a plethora of other conflicting habits, values and views. Joannie's moods and behavior reflect her doubts and fears and she uses various methods of avoidance to not fully contemplate the consequences of their relationship. Yet it is she who ultimately determines the direction their love will take and the reader is left to decide whether or not it is the wisest choice for both of them.