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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Thesis: A person who attended private or Catholic K-12 is likely to identify a person they met there as their closest friend. A person who attended public K-12 is more likely to identify a person they met in college as their closest friend, except if they still live in the town where they grew up.
Related premise: Men generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Women generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Conclusion: women make better friends, probably because they usually smell better.
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Childhood: I met the person I consider to be my best friend when we were five. We never went to the same school, but we are still close.
High school: I do not regularly talk to people from high school, though I will run into them socially from time to time.
College: I get e-mails maybe twice a year, and the last time I saw someone from college was probably four or five years ago. I graduated ten years ago this year.
Graduate/law school: Some contact. Some close friends. There's a very close group that is scattered around the country/world that I maintain regular contact with, but they're not a part of my life.
Work: I don't think that there is a single person that I have ever met through work that I would consider a close friend. I do have one of those 'Nam/Catholic School experiences with a group of people from a former job, and one of them is still there while the rest of us got out. We all still keep in touch with her to make sure she's ok, and to get gossip about what's going on there.
