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Date Posted: 09:59:42 08/23/02 Fri
Author: Dan in Santa Cruz
Subject: I kinda like this

GOLD is resistant to tarnishing. So, too, with golden friendships. Nothing is indestructible, but these kinds of special relationships come close. "There's a deep sense of trust that builds up over a long period of time," says Charlie Pipes of two of his closest friends. "You know you won't be rejected when you make a bad judgement. Over the years, you've learned that these friends are dependable, and you can count on their response."

This resistance to tarnishing seems to be a unanimous opinion about such relationships. They've been tested and have endured. As a result, subsequent stresses and strains on the relationship become easier to overlook or work through. Eventually, say most people, golden friends become like family, as intimate, and even as important.

GOLD attains its high value because of its scarcity. Enduring friendships are rare and precious finds, too. What causes that lifelong bond with some while others, for some mysterious reason, simply drift into memory? Who knows?

One writer likens friendship to filling a glass of water, drop by drop. This is the way a friendship is built, this writer declares, from one act of kindness topped by another, slowly, consistently. Then one day, like the drop that makes the glass of water spill over, there is a "drop" which makes the heart run over. That is a description of the special friend with whom we share a golden friendship.

GOLD is malleable. Long lasting friendship are, too.

GOLD is something "treasured as the essence of finest exemplification of its kind." Golden friendships easily rise to this definitive challenge. Golden friends are the ones in which trivial talk isn't trivial. They care about everything in your life. Yet they're the one you can trust with the most intimate details of your heart.

With these special friends, we are free to be truly and completely ourselves. Our friendship has withstood the test of time. We've clinked our glasses together in celebration of friendship, and the drops have spilled -joyfully- over the rims.

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