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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
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