Around 12 or so years back, my gf and I broke up (completely my fault) and my life went back to being the boring routine it was back then. I was doing self studying for my certification and there was an online forum where I used to frequently go chat (purely educational till a certain point). It was more of a chat forum for students and teachers or others to help each other out for specific subjects.
One day, I was logged onto a forum where an admin was trying to explain a concept to a student. I basically just explained the whole concept a bit better and the student finally understood it. The admin DM’d me thanking for jumping in. We got to talking a bit and turned out that she was from Russia. It was my first time chatting with someone not from my country so it was exciting lol.
We used to chat almost on a daily basis since that day, shared music and movie tastes and what not, literally almost everything. This was all during audio calls over skype so I only had her skype picture to gauge what she looked like.