Ever met anyone off the net??

[TheArbiter]

I actually have met people from online who have gone on to be extremely significant, including my first love.

When I was younger, 5-6 years ago, I was on The Student Room; a then very popular online studenty place with lots of bods chatting and foruming as you do. Here I met a girl who was at the time suicidal, and offered her to phone me to talk (not with any intention of dissuading her, that had to be her choice so long as I wasn't around when she did it). We talked for about 3 hours, and it helped her out. I had actually had this happen with a friend from that site before and it led to other places. Anyways; we just got closer as friends, until one day I realised; I fancied her. We talked that night on the phone, for TWELVE HOURS. We didn't stop talking, she only had to go cos she was at work. When we met up eventually, it was the best weekend you could possibly have. We had 6 months together in all! I've met various other people, I should stress; never with premeditated intent of finding someone, it just seemed coincidentally positive at the time.