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Musings on friendship qualities, dealbreakers, and MBTI types (opens the original)
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Q: What is a quality you require in a friend? And what is a dealbreaker in a potential friend?It’s hard to name just one quality. Kindness, empathy, integrity, humour, honesty, playfulness, loyalty - all of these things are important to me. But if we can disregard the obvious fact that they would have to be a good person, I’ll try to land on something more specific.One of the things I really appreciate in my current friendships is how we can talk about anything, in the sense of not being afraid
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