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We're mostly online friends, and I'm kind of shy. I care but do not want to intrude.
  • Jacqueline? Yes, it seems a tad melodramatic to me

    This friend could be making it all up and just fucking with you. It happened on a discussion board I was on. I and the entire group were taken in, and when I tried to tell other board members that I thought this person was a fake, I met with extreme resistance from them. Eventually they figured it out on their own but it was more than a year later.

    LW, tot up all the dramatic events in her life that she's shared with you. If her life has considerably more drama and tragedy than the people you know in real life (coworkers, cousins, friends), she could be lying.