and the friendship-relation here means this, that, the other thing and at most helps real friendship along, if used right. I took being dropped very personally on LJ back five years ago or so, eh yes. ... If I drop you (and you figure out from the title of this that this may be a post you may want to be reading; maybe not...) - it may mean I've burnt all bridges and am figuratively deaf to all reasoning (such bridges as there were, we were not necessarily close of course, depending on who you and I were to each other again of course... often not close at all...) - but it may not. But the chances are I may want to communicate about something (if only to ask questions, to find if I was right to do what I did, or to continue acquaintanceship at a looser level than such friendship that was there.)
The nephew of one lawyer and brother of another likes to give even people they're accusing, themselves, of rather serious things that "day in court".
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