I only found out by going to a Forum where both he and I had stopped going to after it was taken over by trolls.I'd just gone back to see if anything interesting had come up in my absence.Someone there had posted the news,and later my friends' sister had posted his story.
All very sad,and really shocking.
What's particularly sad is that,as with all online friendships,I didn't actually know him except through this mysterious window of the computer.And I might easily never have found out what happened to him.He lived in America,so the chances of actually meeting him were pretty remote too.Turns out he was the same age as me,and his own father had also committed suicide when he was 19,something he apparently never got over.So the Father's day date has an extra poignancy.
I often think about the fragility of the relationships we make online.Someone disappears from this messageboard,and you don't know what's happened to them unless they post again.
Like Alex said,I've grown very fond of everybody who comes here to the Stina forum.Somehow you have to maintain a little shell against the unreality of an online relationship.
I'm feeling very...
Just today I saw his email address among my files,gave me quite a turn.
