ooh! branching off of online friends, what if they were pen pals? sophie's parents (i may change her name but we'll call her soph for now) are musicians so she spent a lot of her time on tour buses and on their families ranch, i'm thinking for a good portion of her life she was home schooled. so friends were far and few between unless they had 4 legs and a tail. maybe they signed up for the same fanclub and it went from there?