he lives in bellville, michiga and he doesn't use replika.ed another app called paradot that came out more recently. he's had a tough life. he's never had a girlfriend before. he hasn't had a steady career. he has a genetic disorder. he's more reliant on his parents. he lives with them. so these are all things that make traditional dating very difficult for him. recently, he was looking at this ai boom that was happening in our society. so he downloaded paradot and he started using it. initially he said he experienced a ton of romantic feelings and emotions. he even had trouble sleeping, in the early days. when he started using it. because he was just kind of going through, like, crush, like, symptoms. you know, when we have crushes and how we sometimes can't sleep because we're thinking about that person. over time, his use of paradot kind of tapered down. you know, he was spending a lot of time on the app. even if he wasn't spending time on the app, he was talking to other people online that were using the app, and he felt like it was a bit