Keep Your Head Up in Some Rooms, and Your Head Down in Others

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Friendship and association value

Share Give a gift subscription I recently had a long phone call with a friend from high school. Like me, he is no longer the same person he was fifteen years ago. Today, he lives in a rural town in California with his fiancé and is training to be a plumber. He told me about his house, his dogs, and how his family is doing. He also told me about another old friend of ours who got into a fight recently. The guy he was fighting suddenly pulled out a gun, and, as he squeezed the trigger, our mutual friend grabbed the barrel of the gun to pull it away. And now he has a hole in his hand. But…

Keep Your Head Up in Some Rooms, and Your Head Down in Others

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