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“Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.” quote by Rod McKuen — Download Open image

“Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.”

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