This is a heartwarming story about relationships and the internet that led to a Netflix documentary called The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (link goes to the trailer).
It’s well worth reading through.
We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 25 [The Times] – “When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one — until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that he’d found friendship and even romance in a gaming community”