Example in my life: I catfished as a boy and got a girlfriend on a game I played as a kid. Somehow I convinced myself it was just for fun or smthing.
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I also had this massive obsession with an older girl in my class, I started to like the things she liked and we played dnd together, she also let me borrow her books. Looking back I had a massive crush on her.
They're was a girl in my class and I always would like kids her forehead. Platonically back then but now I look back and I definitely liked her. Now I use my friends as pillows, and bite/kiss them in their arms or legs.