Lannie, you are the female version of me. Are you sure you aren't on the spectrum? 🙂

Your story arc is my story arc. Right down to only needing one significant relationship at any given moment. It's why I'm a serial monogamist.

You do podcasts, my friends are all books. I meet about 100 new people a year.

And you are so right about being closer to them than the IRL people around me. The conversation is so much better.

I not sure about OLDS just having to talk about physical issues because that's all they have going on. My experience is that they do want to talk about their lives, but have to spend huge amounts of time providing context for their stories.

I think having context with someone is what we all come to crave. Being with someone that we don't have to explain everything to all the time, becomes more and more valuable as time goes by.

I also love my cats. Although I was recently thinking about how strange it feels to know they are my "last cats". It made me have such a sense of my life winding down.

Lastly, I have blossomed here on Medium because of the conversations I have had here. I have made misteps and I'm sure some people dislike me. But I have also found minds like yours to talk to.

Priceless.