New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.

I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.

Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be innocent children.