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for friends to assume a greater importance in people’s lives than they have in times
past. The more that this is the case, we think, the more researchers will be drawn to
study friendship. Given the potential damage that transgressions, betrayals, and the
like may cause in friendships, speculations concerning the increasing importance
of friendships lend a sense of urgency to our efforts to understand how people deal
with acts of injury and offense perpetrated by or against their friends.
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