We have friends whose families had worked at the local steel mill for generations, had plenty of disposable income and were able to provide their children with nearly everything.
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We have heterosexual friends who have gotten married after many years together for the same reasons.
But we have good friends, like you, who have helped us in the past, who continue to help us.
We all have friends and neighbors trying to get their lives back on track.
"Even though we have many friends here, they could be facing the same difficulties, " says Deshpande.
Never will I fly BA again, we have US friends waiting for us to share a holiday which is now not going to happen.
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Not only do we see people in different contexts, like work or leisure, but we also have friends scattered around the world who don't necessarily mix or interact.
And we all have friends, neighbors, or family members who already knows how hard it is to land a job when five workers are competing for every opening.
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We have wonderful friends and neighbors and a million dollar view from the porch, a real kitchen, a washing machine, a lawn mower stuff that is foreign to city dwellers.
We have many other friends who are, like us, sad and lazy with no social lives and who spent their Christmas holidays catching up on entire seasons of Homeland and Downton Abbey.
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In the past few days, we have seen his friends and co-workers share warm stories of his brilliance, compassion, and tireless dedication to the causes of an open and free exchange of ideas.
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We make connections, we have favorites and friends.
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By making moves that would be considered completely offensive to even her most die-hard fans, such as her "Sex" book, then coming back with wonderful moments of redemption, such as "Evita, " she's formed something that feels similar to what we all have with friends and family -- moments of faith and forgiveness.
"We're great friends, and we have different strengths, " Walvius said.
He may not have gone to my high school and we may not have been direct friends, but through our extended network of connections, I would forever maintain a realtime awareness of where he was, what he looked like and which Farmville animals he had most recently strangled.
And the thing about a leadership contest is it's not between enemies or foes, it's a contest between friends and perhaps we all would rather not be in a position of having to decide between friends but we have to make that decision.
And we know that regardless of anything else, we have made some lifelong friends.
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"We are comforted by the knowledge we have brought our seven friends home, " said Bob Cabana, director of Flight Crew Operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Bradford Dickerson, a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues have shown in studies that the size of certain parts of the brain important to emotional processing is associated with how many friends we have.
"My friends, we have a chance to become Big Publishing's worst nightmare, " King says on his website.
"We have neighbors, family, friends who are gay people, " Carol Oldham explains, tears welling up in her eyes.
Well, my friends, we have another addition to the growing list of social media marketing disasters.
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We are deeply appreciative of all the caring and kind words we have received from family, friends, and fans.
My mother once had a jar of change stolen when I was child, and without our small network of friends we would have gone without food entirely.
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.
We have some wonderful supporters in Leicester who have become firm friends over the years and they can rest assured that their generosity continues to help people in difficulty at sea.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those killed and injured, and we greatly appreciate the support we have received from our Turkish friends in responding to this terrible tragedy.
"I am very, very grateful and pleased to note that tonight, my friends, we have won enough delegates to claim with confidence, humility and a great sense of responsibility, that I will be the Republican nominee for president of the United States, " McCain told supporters Tuesday night.
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