What is a friend?

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What is a friend?

Milton Magazine considers the meaning of friendship—its power and rewards. How do you make and keep friends? How do friends interact? How does friendship change over time—and, how does it change you?

Is today’s electronic environment affecting students’ ideas and experiences of friendship? What social conventions shape interactions between “friends” now? What is a real friend, today?

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