My Best Friend

I've come to realize that I have an incredible best friend. We don't live in the same state, never talk on the phone but I know I can count on him no matter what. All I have to do is put a message in my MSN Messenger Status or just send him an email and he'll stop in his busy day to email me or come on MSN and stay up until 1 and 2 am his time to talk to me and make sure I'm ok. I've done the same for him.. after all that's what friends do for each other. We've known each other since the latter part of 1999, have met in person and have been lovers in the past. Our friendship is based on pure friendship. We don't care what each other looks like, we don't judge each other by our jobs or income. We just plain don't judge each other. Since starting my new job in May, my work hours have changed and I can no longer have MSN Messenger on a work computer. I'll have a rough day and come home to find a long email saying he'd been thinking about me.. how he misses our chats and how he misses his best friend. He's tried to come to California for a visit over the last 3 yrs but life always gets in the way, with deaths or illness. The feelings we have are true friendship feelings.. love for a friend.. not romantic love.... how do I explain it..... :-)