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View submission: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
I don't imagine I will find something like this again in my life. That's not to garner sympathy or imply that I don't have other connections, but I truly don't believe this organic, random, honest text-based sense of community will exist again. This is Old Internet now, it's gone alongside forums and craigslist. I have spent seven years taking my chances with strangers every month, delighting in the new hobbies and discoveries I've experienced. Some have become lifelong friends, some I have never spoken to, some peoples' reactions to my gifts have brought me to tears, and I have felt the same about many I've received.
This year has given me a lot of hits, but somehow the inorganic death of this constant in my life, since 2014, hurts the most. All that said, I am going to make someone's Pride and Arbitrary Day fucking magical, I don't care what it takes.
There's nothing here!