Sara

There are those people online that you never get to meet but suspect could be your very best friend if they only lived closer. I tend to work them into daily offline conversations sometimes, with references that don't sound as strange as they used to ten years ago: My Friend From Chisago County (only she doesn't live in Chisago County anymore), SuezBoo in South Africa, The Dancer in NYC, Sara in Massachusetts (you know, the one who takes photos of love potatoes).

You hope to travel, meet for lunch. You trade notes and laugh out loud, long-distance, at their clever crush-worthy minds.

You are heartbroken when you finally understand that the small portion of their greatness that you already got to see is all you will be so lucky to share.