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Give me either the loneliness of the Finnish forests or of a big city.

Give me either the loneliness of the Finnish forests or of a big city. - Jean Sibelius , Finnish composer I believe the internet is hugely underrated as a way to make friends. Real friends. Oh, sure, people will pay lip service to “blah blah people halfway around the world are just a click away blah blah”, but that’s a far cry from the kind of friendship where you can be open about your secrets, the stuff you don’t show the outside world. It can be hard to imagine that you can connect so strongly with someone you meet through a computer screen, no matter what conventional wisdom is about conne

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