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Friendships — 5 March 2005
Share some of your opinions on the concept of friendship.

What kind of people do you surround yourself with as your friends? Do you find yourself more comfortable with people your own age, or does that matter? Do you like to surround yourself with lots of people, or do you like to have a smaller, more tight-knit group around?

How easy or difficult is it for you to meet new people and make new friends? Is it easier or harder to make friends using the Internet, and what kind of positive effect has meeting friends online had on your life? What are the greatest kindnesses a friend has shown to you?

—From Out There! Collaborations, December 2000

My friends generally are pretty entertaining, and generally aren’t too wild (with a few exceptions X-P). I don’t usually enjoy hanging out with people who are a grade or more above me, because it’s somewhat intimidating to me. Younger kids are fun to talk with, although I don’t know many because I only hang out with people my age.

I have a lot of friends, but only a few of them are really close. So I guess you could say that I like to surround myself with a lot of people, yet I still have a close circle of friends who I trust the most.
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