When I reconnected with my Partner, when I finally knew the truth behind the avatar and she saw I was not going anywhere – that was when we worked on the distance. We used the Internet to our advantage and picked up on Skype calls, webcam chats and sent each other presents and notes of our devotion. We tried to make the most we could with what little resources we had until we could make our physical adoration a reality. Then, it happened. My girlfriend conquered all of her own personal discomforts to fly from her country to my country. She’d never flown before, but she flew to me. She left every single comfort zone that she knew behind a monitor and an avatar and stood before me in an crowded airport on an extremely snowy-day in December. Our love was not just a factor of our avatars set on loving poseballs, cued into lifeless gazes that we had to force on one another. No, it was much the opposite. Now, our avatars had become the make-shift dolls that would give us a sense of normalcy until we could be together again.
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