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Originally Posted by maleficent
I wear a white gold claddagh ring on my left hand that was a gift from my best friend... it's not diamonds, nor was it a romantic commitment, it was a committment more important - one of friendship...
Rings are an acceptable gift, as are expensive gifts, but it's dependent on the people... there are other people who I wouldn't accept anything more than a token gift.
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Granted, sometimes it happens - but in this case I think it's probably not just because they are great friends. I also think in your case you had a particularly special friendship that is probably an exception and not the rule in the majority of these situations. I agree that it depends on the people involved.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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