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... he'd hoped for a modicum of attention to his latest post, thinking there ought to be at least one more like-minded individual out there who happened to read in places where he might write, who would recognize his style and leanings as though they were more than merely roughly their own... and soon enough both would spend weeks expressing back and forth to each other how relieved they were to have finally found each other, and thus could *finally* exchange text with another with whom there was *finally* greater than a point oh oh oh oh oh two percent chance of genuinely understanding what the other had written for having such irresistible contextural overlap.
And then he awoke.
"Honey?"
"Yes dear?"
"Crazy dream. It was somehow the late 1980s again, and I was back to 1200 baud dial-up to local BBSs, convinced I'd soon encounter someone else with whom I'd exchange incredibly meaningful email. Heh, can you believe it? It's over 40 years later, and my mind still harbors embers of what we long ago came to understand was an early online possibilities pipe dream!"
"Well, it's not like you've ever been much good at accepting our plight as separate selves...."
<frowns>
10 hours ago