It’s a rare serious moment for us. Not that our relationship is complete frivolity, but most things are understood. You don’t have to spend years together to have a bond like Cinch and I do. You earn brotherhood—the purest friendship, trust, love, whatever you want to call it—moment by moment through how you treat others. Whether people admit it or not, they’re always keeping score. Little by little, you either build a friendship, destroy one, or maybe just hang out never really knowing if you can trust the other person or not. It’s probably this uncertainty that causes most people to talk
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