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“We don’t even think in terms of ‘friends.’ It’s more like he is my brother.”
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The speaker says the relationship feels deeper and more natural than ordinary friendship. Calling the other person a “brother” expresses a family-like bond, suggesting that “friend” seems too limited to describe how they regard him.
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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