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Why Friends Are So Important & The Extraordinary Benefits of Writing Things Down

Something You Should Know

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What You Should Know About Friendship

Lydia denworth is a science journalist and author of the book friendship, the evolution, biology and extraordinary power of life's fundamental bond. Friendship has to have three essential things: it's a long lasting, sort of stable tionship, it's positive, it makes people feel good, and it's co operative and reciprocal. People with more friends live longer, are healthier, are happier. And in other species, the ani s best able to make strong, positive bonds, like among baboons and makaks, they live longer, and they have more and healthier babies. Friends tend to come and go throughout your lifetime. Some people stick while others don't - but there

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