Jenna (wise woman!) put her finger on it: I consider my girlfriends as adopted family. In some ways closer, because we are there for each other when families are not. Don’t know any men who have that, quite.
(This long holiday weekend, all my friends but one are out of town, and that one is hosting a family member on pass from a mental institution. So, *sigh* cat care and crazy people for a few days. Time for me to lighten up. TY to Pixies folk for good reality check!)

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