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I was lying on my bed with my laptop one evening when a new friend request popped up on Skype. I didn’t know who it was, but I accepted out of curiosity and a love of meeting new people.
Let’s call this stranger Mark. He immediately sent me a message and we started chatting about life.
Maybe this unsolicited friend request should have rung an alarm bell in my mind.
When I was a kid, my mom and dad had rules around chat rooms, warning me about the dangers of talkin
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