friendship makes for a book that is deeper and thicker in
shared histories, in content.
If you were to ask a happy bachelor and a happily married man
to each write their stories, you’d get a positive narration from both. The single person’s perspective would however
be I, me and myself – and possibly a string of blind dates and Saturday nights
alone. The married man will talk about
“us”, of mutual interests – a story definitely made richer because there are
two stories, not one.