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Anxieties and Hopes About Meeting an Online Friend in Person

An online friend I’ve been chatting with regularly suggested a coffee near my work after one of our late-night conversations. Just forty minutes on a quiet weekday, nothing dramatic, and I still managed to start worrying that the easy version of us won’t survive being in the same room. I want to go, which is probably why I’m overthinking it. I swapped one closing shift with a coworker and confirmed it. Trying to treat it as one ordinary coffee, not a test of the entire friendship. I just miss having someone to make a normal plan with instead of only messaging when the day’s over.

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