Poor lad Whilst recently cleaning out my email inbox, I counted more than 100 email messages and replies from Tim in two months. We email each other most days. Sometimes in long, threaded exchanges. Poor Tim's read through tens of messages about my insecurities, my boredoms, my frustrations and responded to each with a level-headed sense of humour. And all this with never actually hanging out. I've only met him three times, and not once in the last six months. hmmmm.