“Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak… One by one, our comrades slip away, deprive us of their shade.”
Antione de Saint-Exupery from “Wind, Sand and Stars” (1939)
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