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[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

remember when we met people from around the globe and it was fun instead of frustrating?

[โ€“] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I'm still fucking ashamed, I was 9 and me and my sis had an ICQ friend. He was the same age as our IRL friend, had the same name, except it was a different guy someplace in Germany. Yet somehow the friendship a bit transcended that little nuance.

And I wrote such horribly idiotic stuff.