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...Disgusted, Taylor ended Laura Skye's relationship with Barmy but chose to stay with Pollard in real life. In an effort to test his commitment, Taylor hired a private investigator on Second Life named Markie Macdonald. Macdonald hatched a plan whereby a female avatar flirted with Barmy in an effort to lure him to her cyber-bed. Instead of succumbing to temptation, Barmy spoke of his strong feelings for Laura Skye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UK Couple to Divorce over Affair on Second Life | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...April of this year, however, things soured when Taylor caught Barmy getting intimate with another avatar, named Modesty McDonnell. "I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. It looked really affectionate," she said. "I ended up going off to his mum and dad's in floods of tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UK Couple to Divorce over Affair on Second Life | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...fact, Pollard said, it was his wife's addiction to another fantasy role-playing game that drove him to the other avatar. "Amy never did anything around the house. She just played World of Warcraft all the time," he said. More hurtful was her refusal to give him attention. "If I wanted to spend time with her, I had to ask, but it was always too much trouble for her to come off the game to spend time with me, so the marriage was a bit of a joke." (See pictures of World of Warcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UK Couple to Divorce over Affair on Second Life | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...both parties, though, there appears to be a silver lining. Taylor has a new boyfriend whom she met through playing World of Warcraft. And by Friday afternoon, the Daily Mail in England had reported that Pollard is now engaged to Linda Brinkley, 55, the woman behind the Modesty McDonnell avatar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UK Couple to Divorce over Affair on Second Life | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Brinkley, a twice-divorced mother of two who lives in Arkansas, said that her avatar met Pollard's at a Second Life nightclub called Holodeck where McDonnell works as a hostess - not, as in the words of Taylor, a prostitute. "When we first met, it was at a fancy-dress night on the game, and he noticed me across the room and said he felt something special," she said. Brinkley also claimed that their relationship remained platonic until Pollard formally separated from his wife. After that, their avatars married in an online ceremony attended by seven guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UK Couple to Divorce over Affair on Second Life | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

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