Can anyone provide "emotional" word/phrase for a "friend" you have never met, but it feels like you really know him? I won't mind even if it was in a language other than English. :)
Update: Would love it if the word/phrase was related to literature.
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2What about "imaginary friend"? Always there but you never meet in person. They are often depicted as a shadow or one's own shadow. – ermanen Apr 29 '14 at 00:16
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No need to delete the question if it may be useful to others. – Jeffrey Kemp Apr 29 '14 at 07:39
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1Not exactly the same notion, but such a person might often be referred to as one’s *kindred spirit*. A kindred spirit can be someone you know, too, though. – Janus Bahs Jacquet Apr 29 '14 at 08:35
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Fictiophilia means an attraction to fictional characters, but it's not a common word. – SEL Apr 29 '14 at 08:41
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Related, but different: Is there a word yet, for old friends who've just met? Related possible duplicate: Is there a word for someone who you've not physically met but know well? – WBT Apr 19 '16 at 22:46
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Pen pal
a person with whom one becomes friendly by exchanging letters, especially someone in a foreign country whom one has never met.
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Kris Rosvold asserts that
there is such a word, used in the Pooh stories and in Richard Bach's stories: Unmetfriend.
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