Has there been any time in your life where your closest relationship was with someone you'd never met in person?
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No, but there was a time when I worked closely with a remote-work programmer and I realized to my surprise that despite a certain intimacy in our relationship I had no idea what gender they were, because of their ambiguous name.
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When I was a Christian I might've wondered whether Jesus would count.
But, no.
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Decades ago.
Pen-pal girlfriend arranged by my cousin.
E-mail, telephone, girlfriend met through work.
Neither panned out to be long term after meeting.
Other senses beyond intellect get a vote on relationships.
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I thought this would be much more common, but I think it's just because when I moved as a kid it took me a while to make any friends in real life. I wonder if that's a common reason why you'd have mostly online friends.
