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My mother is my best friend, and I can talk to her about anything. She helps me through everything, and we don’t have any secrets. Whenever I feel lonely, my mother is the only person I can talk to.
My mother has been my best friend for as long as I can remember, and I prefer her company over anyone else. She is kind, intelligent, funny and a good listener. I can say without bias that I’ve never met another person more worth being friends with. 
Sure, I’ve had friends, but I just liked my mom more than them. I didn’t feel the need to go shopping with my friends and I’ve kept contact with hardly anyone from those years of my life. To this day, I tend to relate better to people decades older than me. I have given my mother so much access to me that it is difficult to be myself. My friends told me that I’m living in a house without walls – emotional walls.
At 25, I am only now learning how to make and maintain friendships outside of my family circle. Feeling that my mom doesn’t understand my life has encouraged me to develop a new circle of friends that has nothing to do with her. It’s helped me to keep some things private from her. I started setting boundaries. For example, my mother doesn’t know what music I’m listening to. I still feel the urge to tell her, but now there’s a voice in the back of my head that reminds me some things need to be mine and only mine. By nature of being a great best friend and parent, my mom understands and accepts this.
I hope it’s a compliment to my mother that her role in my life has always been too comforting and too loving — so much so that I had to start keeping a distance from her.
 
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Kevin: There are six members in my family. All of us have gone to the same university. My f
ather went to North Georgia University as a history major and was part of the Golden Eagle Band. My mother was an art major and became an art teacher after college. My older brother went to study music. And I went to study Chinese though I also have a music minor. My little sister is coming up to study foreign languages too, though she wants to go on to foreign affairs. And my little brother wants to come up to learn Russian. Both of my grandparents also went to North Georgia University and studied there. This is where both my grandparents and my parents met each other. Now at home in south Georgia, I have four dogs named Darla, Pig, Lily and Romy. I have seven cats which is too many to name. And I have a fish pond of my own which I dug out of the ground.
Katherine: My family consists of my father, my boyfriend, my cat and my friends. My father is a 65-year-old man who used to work as a newspaper. He used to review movies for a living. But now he’s retired and very involved in his community. We have a very good relationship. I live with my boyfriend and my cat. My cat is an all-black cat named Darkness. My boyfriend is an occupational therapist. My friends are also very important to me and I consider them family. They are closer to me than any brother or sister could be an
d I know they would do anything for me as I would do anything for them. I feel very lucky to have so many people in my life.
 Christine: I have six people in my immediate family. I have my two parents who are in their fifties. My father is named John and he is an accountant at a big firm in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I have my mother. She is an assistant to a doctor. And then I have an older brother who is in the US Air Force. He is 27 years old. And then I have an older sister. Her name is Sarah. She is married with two small boys aged 6 months and two years. And then I have a younger brother who is starting at the college that I am attending. My family also has a dog. Her name is Jasmine. And she is a black toy poodle.
 
Christine: We’ve been friends since childhood. Our mothers were friends. And we were even born in the same month
Katherine: We can’t remember a time when we weren’t part of each other’s lives. In fact, we’re like family. I’m the only child in my family. So you’re like the sister I never had.
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Christine: We’ve spent so much time together that even our personality and our habits are similar.
Katherine: Everyday we spent together we became more and more alike. We’re really more like soul-mates than friends.
Christine: We have no secrets from each other. We tell each other everything. In fact, we even finish each other’s…
Katherine: Sentences．
 
Kirk: Hi Michael! Hi Stanley!
Stanley & Michael: Hi Kirk!
Kirk: How are you guys?
Michael: We are fine.
Kirk: Can I join you guys?
S&M: Yes, of course.
Kirk: How often do you guys play basketball?
Michael: I play… I often play basketball.
Stanley: I’m just a beginner, so I’m not good at it. That’s why I come to him.
Kirk: Oh, very cool! What do you guys like most about basketball?
Michael: I like it because it is very fun and relaxing. It is good for our health.
Stanley: I like it because I can make me stronger and taller.
Kirk: Yeah, that’s true.
Michael: How about you?
Kirk: I don’t know.
Kirk: I really like playing sports a lot but I don’t get to play basketball very often. And I think that basketball is really great way to spend time together with friends you know.
S&M: Yeah!
Kirk: Let’s play a game.
S&M: Sure. Let’s go!
 
Dillon: What are you doing?
Christine: I’m reading this book by Han Han.
Dillon: Do you like his books?
Christine: I do. He’s one of my favorite authors. I’ve liked his books since I read his first one.