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...Black Lagoon or that we had nothing to talk about, but it was horribly uncomfortable. Our online exchanges had been about deep stuff: Did I believe in God? What did dreams of death mean? But in person, that connection evaporated, and I found myself face-to-face with a stranger who knew way too much about me. It was downright creepy...
...digital prelude to Mike and Candace's real-time interaction actually brought the couple closer together emotionally, though it did inject some awkardness in their first meeting. "Over e-mail you can say a lot more to a stranger than you can face-to-face, like if you just met someone at a party," Candace said. "I was really open to him from the very start. But the first time we met, he was scared to talk to me. I had to corner him. I asked him what was wrong and he said, 'You know me too well...
...While Candace says she enjoyed the e-mail correspondence phase of their relationship, she noted that writing incessantly to a stranger can become "kind of scary sometimes because you can get lost in a fantasy world...
John sits, and as he tries to convince a stranger that he was railroaded the second time around, the lie flickers across his face and then settles in his eyes. You want to stand up and throttle him--first for what he did to his victims, and second for what he has done to his mother. And then you want to reach down inside him and get to his father...
Monica Lewinsky has always been a stranger to her generation. She has seemed lovestruck, needy, pitiable--never hip or even comprehensible. After all, what self-respecting twentysomething would want to be a White House bureaucrat, or hang with Mom all the time, or lust after a golf-playing, Kenny G.-listening fiftysomething with a taste for giving cheesy gifts...