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A closed instance isn't hiding. It's a room where the noise drops away long enough to find out who's actually there.

To the uninitiated it sounds crude. To someone starved of connection by a lifetime of shyness, ERP was an alchemy of attention, the forge where loneliness was quietly unmade.

VR changes the physics of social exposure: low-consequence, high-density practice where months of growth fit into an evening, and the confidence survives the headset coming off.