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December 10, 2007 9:28am

As the submitter of this silly little craigslist post, let me first say thanks for the notice.

It has been wonderful to hear from so many people who seem to have absolutely nothing in common other than their sense of identity with XKCD. I have an inbox full of feedback from across the country, ranging from friendly encouragement to full-on flattery.

It's true, the XKCD-esque "female stick figure" girl exists in many different forms in real life. There really are people who embody the same traits that make me so attracted to the comic itself.

Of course, the biggest issue is that they're all at least a thousand miles away. How do I know? Because almost every e-mail had some variant of this sentence: "I would love to meet up and talk sometime, but I'm in [distant city]!" For a group of people who can feel such a strong sense of identity with an online cartoon, I'm astonished by how strongly they still prefer to only engage in relationships within their surrounding 20-mile radius.

Anyway, the whole point of my post wasn't so much to find a single person who behaved a lot like the female stick figure, marry them, and live happily forever. I really wanted to dive into this subsection of society (which I almost never encounter otherwise) and connect with people that my standard living and working environment don't tend to put me around. Thanks to my impulsive little post, I had a chance to do that, and that's completely awesome. ;)

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