We have been very connected our entire relationship.

I feel like the entire state machinery is against me.

Friendship is a strange idea, difficult to quantify and, at times, even more difficult to maintain. Clearly a friend is someone you enjoy spending time with. However, a friend is also someone you continue to support even during periods when they are considerably less pleasurable to be around. The loyalty of friendship often contains a kind of tautology or feedback loop: the longer you are friends the more loyal you become, and the more loyal you become the longer you remain friends.

Without feeling so close, so connected, so comfortable to a person for what I have sex.

Some growers have lost their entire banana plantations.

It gives us willpower to stay together. We don't take each other for granted because we don't get to see each other all the time.