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How did you meet your best friend(s)?

The word "best friends" is so cute, it makes me feel like I'm thirteen years old.  Although really best friendshipness didn't really fade out for me till college.  Until then, it was a matter of security and status to be able to claim another person, who would equally claim me, as best friend.  My best friend for the longest period of time was Karen Landry, and we got together in the fifth grade.  I remember being outside at recess - do kids still do that? - and sitting on the side of a hill on the playground.  She asked me if Scarlett was my best friend, and I said no.  I asked if she had a best friend, and she said no.  She asked if I wanted to be her best friend, and I said yes!  From there, it was only one small step to matching t-shirts and necklaces and hours-long daily phone conversations.  I remember this phenomenon vividly - little girls forming quasi-romantic unions that involved fights and jealousy and breakups and reconciliations just as emotionally fraught as the real romantic stuff would be later on.  I have very fond memories of Karen, but I have no idea where she is now or what she's doing.  We "grew apart" sometime in the ninth or tenth grade without ever actually breaking up.