Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. (Salman Rushdie)

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

Salman Rushdie

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