At the same time, friendship often encompasses a measure of attraction, a hungry curiosity about the other person. What separates the strong feeling of a new friendship from falling in love can be nothing more than a linguistic formality. And emotions pay no heed to language. All those vague, homeless desires that hover between people every day like a quivering field of energy do not disappear because they don’t have a name. They might even grow stronger for that very reason.
