This is the story of how two people can meet, become friends, stay in touch over a fifteen-year period of time - sometimes going years without chatting, and then fall madly in love while living almost 800 miles away from each other!! It's the story of perseverance, and persistance, and the power of the telephone. It's the story of how a silly joke left on an answering machine can turn into an all-night phone call, and how that phone call can turn into a lifetime spent together.

Both had been burned by love and spurned by love over the years. Both had a string of failed relationships, or dead-end relationships behind them, and both had just about given up on finding love again. In fact, Karen had gone as far to say that she would get married again only "When Pigs Fly!". And thus the reason for the Flying Pig.