One of the happiest halves I’ve ever run, and the hardest my body has ever had to work for it. Blessed are the ones who have friends - the new ones, the ones who have already stayed a long while, and the ones we grow up beside and keep for decades. However long they have been with us, they mean the world. Eternally blessed for all these friends: they know us better than we know ourselves, having seen us at our best and at our worst.

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