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Questions About Friends

What is a 'best friend'?
Someone you do everything with.
Everything?
What about sex?
What about something one of you hates?
 
How do you know you're best friends?
How do you express
Your mutual trust and respect?
 
What do you do
When one of you needs
What the other can't give?
 
What do you do
When one of you is afraid?
 
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How about
A flexible social contract?
 
I'll agree to listen,
To respect,
Or to change,
If sometimes you will too.
 
Sometimes you will be more important.
Sometimes I will.
 
We'll do what we can,
And try to stay friends,
Through those times
When what we can do
Isn't enough.



25 February 2001

by Bill Cattey