You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there … - Alexander McCall Smith

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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

Alexander McCall Smith

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

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