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Your friends are your family in a way. The people you choose to spend your time with, to make memories with, to laugh and cry with..that’s as much family as the people who raised you. I don’t know where I’d be without my friends. I owe them more than they could ever imagine.They were friends; they were there for each other. Move along, nothing more to see. But it wasn’t just the sharp writing or the comic rapport that made Friends great. Its Gen-X characters were the children of divorce, suicide and cross-dressing, trying to grow up without any clear models of how to do it. They built ersatz families and had kids by adoption, surrogacy, out of wedlock or with their gay ex-wives. The show never pretended to be about anything weightier than “We were on a break.” But the well-hidden secret of this show was that it called itself Friends, and was really about family. (X)
