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“We met in Goldshire,” says Lisette.<\/p>\n
“It’s not a nice place any more, but back then Goldshire was a pleasant little village, where you could meet new, interesting characters. I was looking for someone to role play with, and among others sitting around a campfire was the one I would later learn to know as Ibelin.<\/p>\n
“I – or Rumour, rather – acted somewhat impulsively. I jumped out of the bushes and snatched Ibelin’s hat. We stood for a moment, staring back and forth, then I ran away with his hat, with no thought of direction.”<\/p>\n
She smiles a little.<\/p>\n
Mats also wrote about this first meeting with Lisette, in a blog post he called Love.<\/p>\n
“In this other world a girl wouldn’t see a wheelchair or anything different. They would get my soul, heart and mind, conveniently placed in a handsome, strong body. Luckily, pretty much every character in this virtual world looks great.”<\/p>\n
Lisette says: “Mats was a good friend, sometimes a very close friend.<\/p>\n
“We wrote [to] each other about everything, but he didn’t write about his condition. I thought his life was like mine. For example, we were both agreed that we hated school.”<\/p>\n
But there were things on which they could not agree.<\/p>\n
“He wrote that he hated snow. I wrote that I loved it. I didn’t understand then that he hated it because of his wheelchair. I didn’t know about it.”<\/p>\n
Teenage Lisette’s love of gaming concerned her parents. They were worried about her school studies and her apparent lack of a social life. Their solution was to restrict her access to online play.<\/p>\n
“Being separated from my game friends was hard for me,” Lisette recalls.<\/p>\n
But Mats did not fail their friendship. Even if he could not find her in the game, he kept in touch with her through other channels.<\/p>\n
“He even wrote a serious letter to my parents, in which he tried to help them understand how important playing was for me,” she says. “I have saved that letter.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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