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How do we form such strong attachments to people on the internet?
I have met several lovely women from this site, and from an old site called wis.dm. They are like sisters to me and I adore them!
In fact, I’m much closer to them than I am to some of my own family, even though we’ve never had the chance to meet face-to-face. We chat here and on crackbook facebook and the phone.
How is it that some people can form such strong attachments to people they’ve never met?
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