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Friendship is its own kind of love, what the ancient Greeks called “philia", and must be regarded and managed as such.
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Charles M. Blow
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For many years I followed a no-new-friends ethos, one that became cemented in popular culture with the 2013 release of the track No New Friends by DJ Khaled, featuring Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne.
The logic holds that only established friendships are true and trusted, because they have endured, and since they have endured, there is no space or utility for new friends.
