I reached out to someone I knew on LiveJournal and had never met in person. Reconnecting made me feel 19 again.

• 01/09/2025, 6:56 PM
• businessinsider.com

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On a Wednesday afternoon in August, I sat at my kitchen table and tried not to sound creepy. I was about to slide into the DMs of a stranger who was maybe actually a girl I'd known on the internet.