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"Relationships are like giant squid: we only get to see inside them after they're dead. And I don't just mean romantic relationships: I mean the platonic kind, too. Despite the fact that our culture tends to depict the platonic relationship as though it were a big, friendly dog, it too, is really a giant squid. A close friend is not just a substitute for a lover. As any ten year old girl can tell you, friendship is in and of itself mysterious, rare, elusive, and multi-tentacled. Friendship is its own kind of romance. It can be brief. It can be broken. It can be betrayed."

-Alisa Kwitney, introduction to Strangers in Paradise: It's a Good Life