sick story but I dont know why the convo went that long.........
i've been on social media a long time. as soon as it started i knew this was someone who does this all the time (as the conversation later proved, he was very skilled at generic responses designed at provoking me to possibly engage without actually revealing anything about himself)
these types of people are predators. i took the time to see if he might get careless if i dangled a hook long enough and reveal something about himself, which i could reveal to the community. after the final message my wife actually cut it off. she was so upset she grabbed my phone and hit block and made me promise to not continue the conversation. i gave her my word, so i stopped. frankly i would have continued.
essentially we were playing a little game where we were both dangling hooks. the difference is this person is a predator, and i was his prey.