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There has been a familiar, recognizable rhythm to the lives of my male friends, a rhythm that goes back 50 years

As a way to protect myself from my past, I had let the memories of our friendship fade.

What if your friend seems to have come to a roadblock in their journey of life? What can you say or do, when they tell you something like, “there’s no hope, nothing’s working for me.”

I believe that true friends can disagree and still support one another overall

Somewhere across the years, however – sometime during that melancholic and hard and, I suppose, necessary process that we call growing up – most of us lose the ability to make friends with such rapidity and such ease. We became cautious, guarded, reserved.

That's the benefit of friendship. It blesses me, and leads me to sacrifice on behalf of the one who is my friend.