I dated a guy long distance for 3 months after briefly meeting him at a youth convention. At the end of three months, he revealed that he had pretty much been lying to me the entire time, and he wasn't who he said he was. Naturally I pretty much cut off all contact soon after (I got duped preeettyy bad.) Years later, I started talking to him again. He messaged me one day for my number, gave me a call out of the blue after not talking for like...3 or so years, and told me all about how he got married (at 19) and is now getting a divorce and shipping out to Japan with the airforce. It turns out his flight to Japan included a long layover near where I live. For the longest time, I'd wanted closure on who he ACTUALLY was, so I thought meeting up with him would be the perfect opportunity to find out what he was like in person. He was nice enough, a bit zany (talked to the waitress at dinner with some odd, exaggerated country accent), and interestingly wise. I respected him more as a person after just spending a bit of time with him. It went over well enough- the biggest deal for me was FINALLY getting the closure on my fascination with who this guy was. It was nice to just put my sad fascination to rest- I no longer had to wonder about who this person was who had completely pulled the wool over my eyes. I know just spending a few hours with him didn't mean I knew him inside and out, but I just had no idea how different he was in person. That closure was nice. And hey, he paid for dinner and didn't make any moves on me.

TL;DR: Caught up with my ex 3 years after he convinced me he was a totally different person via the internet/phone. Got closure. Feels good.