mutual affection that is free of sexual or family relations.
• Still there are many more definitions of friendship. Friends care, support, listen, open-up, and then in the end are loyal. It is almost like the ethics of medicine: friends try to benefit and not harm their pals, do it honestly, all while respecting the other guy's freedom to choose.
• There are a lot of great quotes about the value of friendship: Some unknown author said, "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
• Charles Caleb Colton said, "True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
• Emily Dickenson said, "My friends are my estate."
• And of course John Lennon said, "I get by with a little help from my friends."
• In this era of the web and such things as Facebook and Twitter, apparently it is a sign of influence by how many one has "friended." Isn't it ironic that the technology

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