Donna Meyer, an avid user of Second Life, a game-like virtual world on the Internet, poses for a portrait in her home next to a characiture of Misty Rhodes, her Second Life avatar, in the Queens borough of New York. The 49-year-old grandmother, who spends up to 12 hours a day in Second Life, shares a virtual home with her partner who lives in New Mexico.

First published in the July 30, 2011, 3:03 a.m. edition

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