How to find love and friendship?

How to find love and friendship?
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We humans are social by nature, and we all want companionship. The most common way of getting to know another person, and forming an attachment is through propinquity. You have to be where other people are, and allow yourself to meet them. Then what seems so distant and hopeless to you now will just happen, all by itself.
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