Interests: history, philosophy, poetry
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Choose Your Friends Carefully

“History, philosophy, poetry. You’ve read all these books?”

“Well, perhaps not all of all of them, but at least some of most of them.”

“Was that all you did, then? Read? Did you never ride, swim, play?”

“I did. My brother was a great playmate and companion, but not a reader. When he left home, though, there were fewer distractions.”

She took the dusty volume from his hands and wrapped her arms around his neck. “Do you plan to spend a lot of time reading, again?”

He sighed. “No, I think I have taken up with yet another distracting companion.”