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  • Fair-Weather Friends

    November 3, 2009

    • I think there is an intricate art of being a friend. Over the years, perhaps I’ve been a little naïve; I’ve occasionally learned that a person I thought was my friend was in reality, a fair-weather friend. That is a person who would shrewdly learn areas in my life that could be manipulated, such as saying what I want to hear. The result is a friendship that is based not on truth, from ...