No. In my case, my internet friends actually have a more intimate and clearer concept of who I really am. Not that I'd lie to r/w friends, just not be as open and, um..err, well quite frankly...revealing! ha ha

Would you ever get in touch with a friend just because you needed to hear their voice?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.