So, in the virtual world, why do most people meet up with their friends on massive social networks like Facebook?

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Rather than dark and mysterious, it is bright and friendly, the kind of place people meet and become friends through their love of the treasure hunt.

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May 30, he said, she left the bar with him and the Kalpoes, telling her friends she would meet them at their hotel before their planned return flight the next day to the United States, he said.

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Her friends, their friends, near-strangers she'd meet at a party, would all pull her aside to confess: This thing you're talking about, this book you're writing.

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The event, taking place at the city's Woodside Halls, is part of the wider Recovery Weekend, which invites people dealing with the effects of addiction, their families and friends to gather in Glasgow to meet and share ideas.

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We meet two friends, Marina (Ariane Labed) and Bella (Evangelia Randou), although their friendship is a spiky one, its patches of tenderness scarred with spitting and snarling.

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More than 85% felt attending meetings has helped them meet challenges in maintaining their treatment and medication regimens, and better explain their heart disease to family, friends and co-workers.

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But while the storm was raging outside, I was fortunate to meet with some of the families, friends and veterans who had come to honor loved ones who had given their lives in service of this nation.

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