My Friends Pretended to Be My Crush for Six Months as a Prank

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In SS3 at an all-girls Catholic school, I told a close friend about my crush on a boy named Joseph. Weeks later, I began receiving calls from someone who sounded like him. For six months, we spoke almost every night, and I believed my crush had become my first real romance. After our final exams, my friends confessed that “Joseph” was a prank. They had used what I told them about my crush, called me from another hostel and listened on loudspeaker while I shared personal things. The person I trusted was never real, and many people around me knew. I laughed at first because I could not process the betrayal. Later, the humiliation and loss of trust caught up with me. Although I have forgiven most of them, the experience still makes it difficult for me to trust people I meet online without verifying who they are in real life.

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