Jay Serrano
Your digital messages in a bottle, lined up on the shore.
From: A name and avatar on the internet
To: Flesh, blood, and electrical signals
Subject: I love you
Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 03:51 PM
It's well-trodden ground how deeply important online friends are in the modern world, despite people of my age growing up utterly subsumed in internet-flavored stranger danger rhetoric. But it's still striking to me how important so many people whose faces I've never seen, voices I've never heard, hands I've never touched can be so deeply important to my life, past present and future. You've taught me to feel, to laugh, to understand others and to present myself. I cannot really envision the life I would be leading, had I not made one or two fateful decisions. Thank you so much for being there. I'd burn the world for any one of you.
