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Friendship

The Evolutionary Benefit of Friendship

Healthy friendships offer far more than a reliable person to share a beer with. Research shows they can make us healthier, wealthier, happier and overall more successful. Here’s how. *** Is friendship …

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A Lesson in Friendship

Around 10:00 pm one night when I was 16 my cell phone rang with a panicked voice on the other side.  My best friend was barely able to remain calm enough to get words out of his mouth. After a bit of …

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Henry Miller on The Complicated Relationship Between Friendship and Aging

Shortly after his 80th birthday, Henry Miller wrote an essay on aging. More of a treatise on living life, it was published in 1972 in a chapbook titled On Turning Eighty. Only 200 copies of the book …

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