A friend will help you move; a best friend will help you move a body.
This was the favorite quip of J, my best friend from youth, who died in a car accident in our last semester at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Friendships tend to grow out of shared pleasure and shared utility. But the friend who will “help you move a body” is most rare because, like the saying implies, there can be high stakes for such limitless friendship. I first experienced something close to that feeling with J.
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