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At all costs keep the love of at
leaSta few folk. Don't let trifles alienate you from husband or
wife, son or daughter, the friend with whom you went to school. Keep
such friendships in constant repair. For the worStthing that can
ever happen to us is that one day we may be alone-alone in the sense
that nobody cares or wants to be bothered with us, We live in a busy
and a harassed world where moStfolk have so many worries of their
own that unless they love us a lot they juSthaven't time to share
our fears or even our joys. It's so easy to be immersed in making
money or carried away by some job or hobby, so easy to be touchy and
thus to keep others at a distance . . . and then, when trouble
comes, when illness or old age overtakes us, when bereavement robs
us, to dis- cover suddenly that we are nobody's concern. So I repeat
At all costs keep the love of a few folk.
From "The Friendship Book of Francis Gay", Tuesday, July 17th, 1962
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