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I left home at 18 for a job and it was like I ceased to exist to anyone that I'd loved before then. My old friends and my family completely seemed to forget about me.
So ten years on, I finally have had enough of this loneliness and boredom, so I searched through a reddit LFG for DnD5e online through Roll20 since I'd played it for a little while with coworkers and understood it well enough. Joined a group with a rigorous entry questionnaire and met a bunch of others that have been through thick and thin together now.
But in that group, one of the people was somewhat outward with their own troubled past that matched mine in a lot of ways. From there we got talking, and we started to become friends. And through a few games and a now a handful of years, they are one of the - if not the - most important people in my life.
They help validate my struggles and offer solutions when I want them, and they come to me when they need the same. I moved across the country to be closer to them and a few others from the DnD group and it's just really been life changing for me in no small words. I started therapy, I stopped being suicidal, I've grown so so much, and I've learned depths of love that I've never encountered before. I do have a crush on my friend and they know, but we're entirely platonic and as close as we can be (I think I'm just Demi sexual?? I just fall in love with people close to me even if it's not romantic).
From how they describe their end, they've experienced a lot of the same things and a lot of the same personal growth. Neither of us would be who we are today without one another.