Recently, a 50-year-old friend asked me where to put extra cash he wanted to save for retirement, but was worried he might have to use to pay college bills for his high-school age twins.
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His low-friend count shocked me.
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In 2010, a forward-thinking friend of mine took me for a ride in a Ford Fusion, a gas-electric hybrid that gets more miles per gallon than comparable cars with conventional engines.
Early on, a very dear friend told me very matter-of-factly to treat this cancer as a pain-in-the-ass inconvenience.
"You have to understand, " a tennis-playing friend once told me.
On Tuesday afternoon a friend invited me to a black-tie event that was taking place on Thursday.
Earlier this year, a friend told me about a Google-Search-Reveal mishap at a conference she had attended.
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But could an Apple or a similar trusted brand become a real friend and co-manage information about me?
You see, since 2006, I had been enjoying an old, 65-inch Toshiba that a friend gave me.
"He was always a really good friend to me, " said 13-year-old Melinda Henson, who considered Mitchell to be one of her better friends.
As a friend once said to me, because we are dual-natured, the best we can do is to lean toward the light.
"It's a me-too world, " says Stephen Friend, head of oncology at Merck.
Unfortunately, however, on that beautiful and momentous Saturday I actually had to borrow my friend's PC laptop to do so -- which made me feel both confused and dirty.
For the past several months, a friend of mine has been telling me about the potentially game-changing implications of an obscure (at least to me) metal named Thorium after the Norse god of thunder, Thor.
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Over dinner the other night, my friend told me about the talk she had recently with her 89-year-old father.
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Thinley had gone the national dress code one better, donning ceremonial knee-high leather boots with upturned toes to welcome Connecticut-based photographer Kit Kittle, an old family friend, and me.
It is a real personal pleasure for me to introduce him to you today, and an honor, and I might say a personal pleasure for me to call him I hope a life-long friend, someone that we'll be able to spend some time with, notwithstanding his other obligations, but to spend a lot of time with.
Another friend found that a photo she thought was completely private was visible to me - a relative had tagged her in it, over-riding her personal preferences.
My old friend and partner in crime Peter Rojas -- the guy who created and brought me into Engadget in the first place -- was looking for a change from his post-Engadget venture, too.
When I asked my close friend, a stay-at-home mom, about it, she told me about her own husband, who had to miss the first week that their young son spent at a new school because of a business trip.
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It reminded me just a bit of a friend who I once saw being force-fed broad beans by her mother.
They become jewelry designers like my friend Marie-Ann Wachtmeister who invented an ingenious patented precious-stone jewelry system that reminds me of Lego.
On nice summer days, me and a good friend of mine named Heather would walk the sprawling weed-free lawn holding hands, dressed to the nines in our JC Penny tour guide income finest, and strolled towards the Cliff Walk over looking the Atlantic.
And a friend gave me a copy of a story by Leonard Michaels that's in theory written - narrated from the point of a view of a adolescent boy but actually is full of adult consciousness.
And, as Jay points out, being the beloved senator from West Virginia where my vote totals don't always match my aspirations -- (laughter) -- for Jay to have been such a great friend all these years means the world to me.
When my friend told me this, over Taiwanese food in Boston, I had a bit of an Ah-Ha moment.
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But two years ago, my friend Cristina Di Benigno invited me to lunch in her village near Corvara, a tiny, little-known ruin of a town in Abruzzo, about an hour by car from the port city of Pescara.
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After realizing how helpful it was hear an objective view of my value, I started gathering intel from people who were similarly non-competitive with me: I asked my former boss for his advice, and my friend who works in finance.
He reminded me a bit of Messala, the fictional Roman proconsul who, spurned by his childhood friend Ben-Hur, plots eternal vengeance.
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