Posted by Dinah on August 18, 2002, at 18:46:38
In reply to Re: congrats for finishing book » Dinah, posted by .tabitha. on August 18, 2002, at 17:10:56
I agree with a lot of what you say.
The drinking part didn't really affect me as much as it did some of the rest of you. It just reminded me of my father's family.
But about friendship between men and women. I've had a lot of friends who were men, and actually in a lot of ways find it easier to relate to men. And a lot of my husband's friends are women. And there is rarely any sexual attraction involved at all. So my experience would be that genuine friendship between men and women isn't that unusual. (Of course, none of the men I've been friends with were anything at all like Jake or his friends. They remind me of some of my father's friends, who I could barely stand to be around and wouldn't have as friends for anything.)
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