You guys make me laugh! That is rare these day's.. Thanks...
What you don't know yet - I will have to explain...
Many years ago, when 'LittleBit' and I first became aquainted (on CC) - she spent a somewhat lengthy segment of time talking with me - in PM - at a time when I really needed someone like her to talk with me like she did.
The conversation was perfectly innocent and appropriate - what I mean is that she showed me respect and [seemingly] a true interest in talking with me - like she actually enjoyed doing so.
She was very nice - kind and sweet. I now don't even remember what-all we talked about that day, but I decided very quickly that I really appreciated her spending that much time talking to a guy she didn't even know that well.
I knew that she was married, and did my best to demonstrate to her that I respected that and had no interest in her in any way that would be inappropriate...
Being someone who likes to pick-and-tease, I started (very carefully at first) to try to build a rapport with her...
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I eventually "mentally-adopted" her as a daughter.
(I have [a number] of them IRL and on CC. I have no children of my own, so other people's children are my children.)
And, I "just love her to pieces"...
She is a sweet gal - and, I am very pleased to think about her as/like a daughter.
I pray for her and her husband and children (not real often, I will be honest - but, I do at times - as if/though she were a daughter [of mine])
Sometimes other people may think we pick at each other "rather hard"; however, she knows that I would never ever want to so much as hurt her feelings for any reason.
I get a lot of good laughs out of picking-and-teasing [with] her. And, she is "a good sport"...
She knows how to "fire back some pretty good ones" at times, too. She "holds her own" quite well most of the time.
I don't try to "push myself into her life" or anything like that. However, if I ever got the chance to meet her IRL - I would no-doubt wrap my arms around her [one good time] and try to express to her how much she has meant to me.
Of course, she is "just" my "CC daughter" (and, I am okay with that) - and, I ask nothing of/from her but that which is associated with common [mutual] respect -- and, to let me be nice to her and pick-and-tease with her --- because it adds something fairly-rare-but-really-nice to my life.
Laura, honey - thank you "for just being you"...
<3
And --- don't let any of this go to your head.