"There is no illusion anymore about 11 football players being like friends, and all these things about 'Real Love' and so on, " Jan-Henrick Gruszecki, one of the founders of Dortmund's biggest fan group, Unity, said, making reference to Dortmund's motto.

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It seems like even freshmen in college have four digits of friends these days.

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Brainstorm with friends solutions to these concerns before turning your back on what seems like a great opportunity.

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But when Ainley talks about these penguins, it sounds like he's talking about friends.

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I'm a Gen-Xer and I've just noticed that like myself and a lot of my buddies and my friends, we have these sort of soundtracks that we carry around in our iPods.

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The Solheim Cup, the women's version of the Ryder Cup, is a bit like that, although these days it seems the two teams do not even start as friends.

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And like us, the workers were sending out these videos and images, in real time, to their friends and families using the very services that we build as technologists.

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