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Today, Tom, we're going to be talking about male friendship.

Yeah, I gotta get one of those.

The two stories are why men struggle with friendship,

and the other one is, why is it so hard for men to make close

friends. Really you know I want to start with the the one there's there's one

article here it's this it's this first one is why men struggle with friendship.

I want to start here talking about one of the most glaring pieces of this.

This is a, it talks about friendship from a 30,000 foot view, but there's also a very personal connection with two people in it.

Two adult male friends.

One of them eventually comes out as gay, but they're very close friends for many years.

And the other one is afraid of being perceived as gay by a friend's circle and by other people so he's not as close

as I think he might want to be you know just be very close and and have that

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