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FALSE FRIENDSHIP

I don’t know if it was my parent’s divorce or just growing-up feelings in general, but I ended up on that chat site because I needed somebody to talk to. Somebody who didn’t already know me, somebody who knew nothing about me, somebody I could just vent everything to.

I’m not sure how long we chatted on the site, but it was long enough to make me want to talk more. It was nice having someone I could talk to. People always tell me that they are here for me whenever I want to talk. But are they?

I felt alone up until I started talking to Daniel. I couldn’t talk to my

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