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I am going to guess your group of friends was quite the outlier. Or you considered a ton of people to be your friends.

> Or you considered a ton of people to be your friends.

That's an awful way to write that. You're insinuating that maybe their friends weren't true. How could you know?

I think you are maybe looking for offense. If I say “I consider them a good friend” it doesn’t bring into question the strength of the friendship.

You're totally right. I didn't think of it that way.

I didn't say good friends; I was in school; guys in my class are my friends unless they are my enemies. And I included that I don't know the stats or data on it, but hearing from others now, many years later, it was not rare.

I also had 2 family members and 2 good friends commit suicide over my lifetime: no idea about stats again, but I know a lot of people (and I live in a completely different country now) who had similar stats.

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