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From: krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz)
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Subject: Re: What is a friend?
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Date: Wed, 25-Dec-85 23:05:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 25 23:05:00 1985
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Hello out there.


We are asked for our definition of friendship.


A friend will (almost) always bless you with their opinion on
a wide variety of issues they deem relevant to the well-being
of your body and soul.  You'll invariably reward this concern 
with total disregard, and do precisely what you were going to
do in the first place; unless of course, you decide to change 
yourself yourself.  Then your friend will start fucking up in
their own right, and you will be absolutely positive you know
what they should do.  You will tell them, in great detail.... 
 

A friend will lend you money when you need it.  As weeks pass
by your friendship will grow increasingly tense and strained.
Finally your friend, vowing "Goddamnit, never again...", will 
decide to forget about the money.  Then you'll pay it back in
full.  Then he'll overdraw his own checking account and, with
a cloying, gleeful tone in his voice, make his own pitch.....

The point being that friendship is reciprocal, a rather basic
fact which seems to have been thus far forgotten in the midst
of all this soul-searching.  I don't think there are any hard
and fast rules to follow in real life, let alone agree about,
"in theory".  Every friendship, like every person, is unique.


Michael Krantz
Courant Institute
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY  10012

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