A person i met online in a game called Monster MMORPG. I thought i'd share here.

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Hello Noelle

I hope you're doing well. I don't know if you'll remember me, but during the early years of this game and also the early years of my life, we used to play this game together. Well, together is figurative and I don't exactly remember how much we both exactly played, but I have distinct memories that we sent each other a lot of PMs and had regular practice battles.

We'd fight with our starters and your water type bunny monster would win against my electric ghost type monster every time due to its higher level (despite the type advantage). I remember those battles being a lot of fun. Then, we would have races to see who could get the most gym badges first, or maybe it was just a race in my head... i don't remember, but I was ahead of you. However, then i told you that if you typed 9 on the arrow keys on the screen and used that, you could walk 9 spaces at a time. Afterwards, you suddenly started getting badges a lot faster and my young mind started freaking out about losing the race haha. You probably already knew that, but ah.. childhood innocence was a beautiful thing. Then, i remember we both decided to Ancient hunt together - There were only 2 Ancients at the time; Fendark and another whose name I don't recall. We decided that I wound hunt for Fendark, and you would hunt for the other one. We used to check up on each other from time to time and ask if we had found it yet, and we had a lot of fun with it. Finally one day, I found a Fendark and caught it, and i got so excited. I immediately PM'ed you about it and you seemed so happy as well and congratulated me. All of these are such nice memories to hold on to.

You might be wondering about the sudden message. Well, as time grew on, my interest in this game wavered and i moved on to new games. However, something had always stuck with me and that was... Your name - Noelle. For some reason, your name is utterly beautiful to me, most likely due to the memories attached to it. The memories of the sweet and innocent times of wonder spent with you. The memories I dearly hold on to as I grow up.

Today is a nostalgic morning, and I've been thinking about your name quite a bit recently. So, I thought I'd find you again and write you a message, even if it might never even be read. I thought I should let you know that you and your name are a small but beautiful part of a random stranger on the internet's childhood.

Again, you probably won't ever receive this letter. It might get deleted from the servers as the game changes versions, or you just might never log in again. The little codes for these written words could be lost forever in the vastness of the internet. However, on the off chance that you are indeed reading this, here is my instagram - @zinn_nobody. Perhaps give it a follow, and we can talk again after a long time. Don't worry, my face is on my profile picture so you can see that i am not an old creep. I want nothing from you other than a conversation about our shared childhood.

Of course, all of this is if you even remember me. If you don't then this would be hella awkward and just ignore it please.

I hope life is treating you well, wherever you are or however old you may be. I pray this letter finds you one day and brightens it up, if even a little.

Sincerely,
ben (But my real name is Zinn)

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