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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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