I was talking to my friend S last night who, after reading some of my posts here, wondered why I didn't talk more about some of my women friends who have been so ridiculously important to me. "Well," I thought, "what does friendship have to do with dating?" Then I remembered the two hours I had spent on the phone with S one afternoon, desperately begging for help because I was seconds from sending a woman I had just met a wedding proposal in a text message. I'm not normally prone to such desperate impulses, but without S's patient ear I might have engineered a small catastrophe, like a puppy dog run amok during high tea.
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