I've had lovers, I've had friends..friends are better

Friends are better because they don't do things behind your back. They don't pretend to be someone else. They don't usually lie and cheat and screw around on you. 

For the last year I've had an 'online' girl that I became very close to, very close to. I said that twice for effect! Now all of the secrets are coming out, the multiple msn accounts, the multiple Ebaby accounts and running more than one msn on the same computer, all of the games that a teenager would play but she is not a teenager. 

Ebaby is great for learning English and for my girlfriend it's a great place for meeting guys! I'm laughing through my tears now at my stupidity but I have one solace in my life. 

My one solace is my friends. I have one who wakes me up on msn shouting "get up get up you lazy old man!"  There is another who loves music and we trade songs back and forth whenever she can break away from her busy schedule. 

Another lives in the far north and we talk about people and places and things, all the time trying to help her learn English. Her children are young, mine are old so we talk about them too. 

One friend lives in the hottest place in the world, so far from the cold north and from here in Canada. We talk about Canada, about English and about her country too.  Mostly about English since she wants to take a proficiency test.

There are more, all just friends but at a time like this in my life, they are all needed and all very much appreciated.