Category Archives: Friendship
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The Fascinating Mentat
Leave a commentMarch 10, 2014 by lucieromarin
For those who haven’t had the dubious pleasure of reading Frank Herbert’s Dune, a mentat is a man (usually) whose …
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After the Occupation
Leave a commentMarch 6, 2014 by lucieromarin
It’s all very well for me to write, “Let him recede,” as a means of recovering from a broken friendship …
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Now I’m Just Somebody that He Used to Know
2March 2, 2014 by lucieromarin
This weekend, while trudging through the rain with a bag of groceries on my back, I suddenly remembered lines from …
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A Catechumen’s Test – Have I Left Anything Out?
7February 19, 2014 by lucieromarin
So, a friend of mine is to be baptised in a couple of weeks, and I’m godmother! Naturally, I have …
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Who Am I, if I Am Not My Friends?
Leave a commentDecember 28, 2013 by lucieromarin
It’s easy to love friends as much as family. It’s easy to love them more than family, if you’re single …
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The Art of Gift-Giving
Leave a commentNovember 30, 2013 by lucieromarin
A friend visited me some weeks ago, to show me her newborn. “Here’s your present!” I exclaimed, and she grinned, …
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Saints – Available for Relationships Other than Marriage
1October 19, 2013 by lucieromarin
The wrong kind of interminable vocation-discussion can have an unintended side effect; it can reduce persons of the opposite sex to …
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The Fairy Godmother (and Santa)
Leave a commentSeptember 21, 2013 by lucieromarin
The vexed question of friendship between the married-with-children and the unmarried-and-childless in the Catholic loop will certainly remain vexed for …
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Anniversaries
4June 10, 2013 by lucieromarin
The best column I ever read on the single life (this was in the days before the internet, and, therefore, …
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The Great Awkwardness – Chaperoning
2May 28, 2013 by lucieromarin
Yes, there really are people in the world for whom chaperoning is still an issue! Well, I’ll say at the …
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Roadkill Rhapsody 