"I am so rooting for you tomorrow, not just as a personal friend but because professionally we are in this together, " she wrote.

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But James thinks having a best friend is just as much an adult instinct as a child's.

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While I introduced him to Harry Potter, a beloved teacher gave him Wild Things, and a pal shared a couple of his own Goosebumps just when my son needed a friend as well as a good read.

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Just as I recommended that my friend acquire a new client on his own, retirees should follow the same advice.

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If you begin to speak quickly, as if you were just jawing with a friend, the number of errors will inevitably rise.

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As a friend of mine just said to me this week as he was upgrading to the iPhone 5, there is no way he would go to the Samsung Galaxy Whatever given the amount of music he has in iTunes.

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How fitting, said a chef friend, but how sad, that he died just as he should have been enjoying a fine galette des rois.

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As it turns out, Amy Berti and a friend were just a few yards from the first explosion.

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This means not just knowing who they are but talking and treating them as you would a good friend.

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But I came to appreciate quickly not just his friendship -- which, if you've got Ken Salazar as a friend, you've got a real friend.

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The scene stuck not just with me, but with a friend I met during my first tour of duty as a Silicon Valley marketer.

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