@Anarchyant forgetting a childhood friend is perfectly understandable. I doubt many people are even acquaintances with people they only spoke to in elementary school. I sure as hell don't know what happened to any of them.
So, this chapter was a tad unrealistic. If it's the future theres no reason why every robot wouldn't have access to google maps. Map technology now is already crazy advanced and more than sufficient.
I really want the author to hold off on uploading anything to the story for a few months. Start and finish something else. It'd be so cool if we all nearly forgot about her and then she suddenly blips back into existence.
Based on the corona stuff, I assume this is less meta and more 4th wall breaking. The only strange thing is how she's able to read the story if she's technically not in our world.
Unless the author is trying to make some kinda social commentary about how some people can live in seemingly...