It was... and still is... worth all of that, just to talk to a stranger I'll never meet, someone whose RL life and mine have little, if anything in common... someone who made me smile just by the subject line of his most recent email.

*sighs*

Have I mentioned recently that I am utterly, completely, and without a doubt insane?

I know I have no need for another person in my life. I KNOW this.

And yet...

...*shrugs*

In an alternate universe, where I'm male, where I'm... different... but still me... in that alternate universe, I've met one of my soulmates.

Bastard.