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One of the reasons why we tend not to make friends as often as we might, comes down to a powerful background idea whose full destructive force, we may not even be aware of the belief that any decent person already has all the friends they need. Somewhere in our minds.

The notion has been lodged that only very sad and inept people would at this stage in their lives, still have a space in their social agenda for a new entrant. Almost everyone else, anyone worth knowing, talented, interesting or good? would long ago have acquired the gang to which they are now continually and irredeemably wedded.