Karen Keltz: I came to Key West because I'm a lawyer, but I'm getting kind of old, and so my biological clock was ticking. I'm 36.

Alex Chadwick: That's not that old.

Karen Keltz: Well, if you have a biological clock it is. So, my friend decided that I should start answering personals. So, I started reading these personal ads in Dallas, but they were all very dull. I mean, have you ever been to Dallas?

Alex Chadwick: Not really.

Karen Keltz: Okay. Well, you know, there all sort of into the same things. You read these ads and there into different sorts of dull stuff. So, what I started doing is there is this magazine, Continental Magazine, and you can get personal ads, so I answered some personal ads from Key West. So, I decided -- there was this one that said, "Want to move to Key West and have a family and a serious commitment." So I thought I would do that because I really -- I'm Catholic and I want to have a lot of kids. So, I answered this personal ad, and we corresponded a couple of times, and I was supposed to come down here to meet him. But on the way here, we drove -- I packed up my stuff in my jeep -- and on the way here we stopped in Pensacola --

Alex Chadwick: Uh-huh.

Karen Keltz: We have some friends in Pensacola.

Alex Chadwick: Yeah.

Karen Keltz: And so we get down here a couple days late.

Alex Chadwick: Right.

Ms: So, we were supposed to meet in this Italian restaurant up the street, but we were a couple days late.

Alex Chadwick: You're wandering around looking for this guy?

Karen Keltz: That's why I came here.

Alex Chadwick: (laughs) That's a great story. Let me see if I can get this right, okay. You answered a personal ad to come to Key West, raise a family, and you actually -- you left your job, you're a lawyer in Dallas. You quit your job. You packed everything you own. You drove here. You had an arrangement to me meet this guy in a restaurant on what, Saturday night? And you got here a couple of days late?

Karen Keltz: Yeah. And it's just down the street.

Alex Chadwick: And you keep going back to the restaurant? And let me ask you one thing, all right. Is this story true?

Karen Keltz: Yes. Of course. Does it not sound true? Who would -- I mean, who could make up a story like this? When you're 36-years-old, time is ticking.

Alex Chadwick: I'm not sure it's ticking so urgently that one should pack everything they own and drive a couple of thousand miles to meet some guy on Saturday night that you don't even know, and turn your whole life around on that.

Karen Keltz: Well, it's an adventure. Haven't you ever tried anything crazy like that?

Alex Chadwick: I don't know if I've ever tried anything that crazy.

Karen Keltz: Anyway, that's my story. And Anita wanted me to tell you, so --

Alex Chadwick: That's great. Thank you very much.

Karen Keltz: Okay. Nice to meet you.

Alex Chadwick: All right. Bye. Wait a second.

Karen Keltz: Oh, I forgot to pay you?

Alex Chadwick: No, no. I'll pay you for that one.

Karen Keltz: I could -- well, thank you. Anita, I got 50 cents

Anita: Okay, good. Towards our s'mores --.

Alex Chadwick: Spend it on a personal.

Karen Keltz: No, we're going to the Italian restaurant.

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