Friendship

Friendship

March 1, 2026

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Yesterday, my husband drove for 5 hours so I could hug an old friend I hadn’t seen and catch up with him over dinner. We’re about to head back home after I post this from the hotel.

My buddy and I kept in touch… mostly… with only a few years between each communication…

It was like we’d just walked back in from the other room and picked the conversation right back up where we’d left off.

Old friends are a treasure… they take years to make.

Do you put those kinds of friendships in your stories? What stories have you read that portrayed old friendships well?

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jaglionpress

March 1, 2026 at 10:31 am

Chloe, the female lead from the last trilogy, has her horses I guess. Maxim, the male lead from the last trilogy, has two close male friends: Bertram, a mundane nobleman and politician whom he’s known since Bertram was a teenager, and Victor, the scapegrace cousin and fellow medical professional who’s about his own age. In the Space P&P book, the POV characters tend to have one sibling apiece they’re close to (Jack for Elizabeth, Georgiana for Darcy, Bill Price for Effie Price) plus Elizabeth also has Charlotte to some extent. In the Star Master books, protagonist Jetay has his brother Khed, and deuteragonist Lanati (Jetay’s love interest, although that’s not her only role in the story) has an increasingly strong friendship with “plain, simple” seamstress Shenti (Khed’s love interest, although that is *definitely* not her only role in the story).

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Pam Uphoff

March 1, 2026 at 11:09 am

I have always thought that the popularity of Star Trek was due to the friendships among the crew.

Oh sure, interesting “stuff.”

But we tuned into to see how our buddies Kirk, Spock, Bones and Scotty were going to handle the problems.

So. . . I try to have my characters have friends.

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Friendship

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