How long have you known your friends?

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Syrch

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What are these "real" friends you speak of?

27 now so i've know them for about 18 years....
 

Patt

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My oldest friend I have known since I was 3 ... so 28 years.

My group of best friends ... 1 since the age of 5, 26 years, and the other half dozen since age 11 (Grade 7) ... 20 years. Wow.

I do have a lot of friends where I live now, but the previously mentioned friends are 'forever' friends.
 
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Best friend (currently being a d1ckhead to everyone around him) since 7th grade, so..17 years....sh1t, hadn't realized it was that long

His cousin, another really good friend of mine, roughly the same amount of time.

My ex wife and her sister, both good friends of mine now (though we all hated each other while married :p)....11 years

I'm starting to feel old :(

I turn 30 in 4 days :(
 

thehstrybean

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First day of kindergarten (I was 3, now I'm 18, so 15 years)
Once since middle school, so 5 or 6 years...
 

uberman

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30 to 40 years. I had Xmas dinner with a friend I use to play with in a sandbox. We keep in touch, but our interests change.
 

TheGizmo

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honestly.. about 4 years. i have a lot of friends that i don't see often anymore though, but still talk to via internet. mainly b/c we live so far apart now. i met most of them in high school or college those guys i've been friends with for about 8 years give or take a few. i moved when i was in 9th grade, so i lost touch with everyone from before 9th grade. that about sums it up. i'm 22 now.
 

waggy

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my best friend about 15 years
my wife about 15 years
other close friend 15 years..

actually now that i think of it. almost all the people i see on a regular basis i have known at least 10 years.
 

RaiderJ

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I'm 25, and I have several friends that I've known 5 years or more. One friend I've known since 2nd grade, and several others from early high school.
 

DainBramaged

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Andrew (Longest friend) - 10 years
Jeff ("Best" friend) - 6ish years
Melissa (Best female friend) - 1 year
 

mugs

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Best friend - over 20 years. Met him in kindergarten. Unfortunately he lives 700 miles away now, but he may be moving back soon.
Friend I hang out with the most - 14 years. Met him in 6th grade. Didn't really become friends until high school.
Wife (and most of my college friends) - 7 years.

 
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I am 24 and have a few friends I have known for about 20 years. I have a few other friends I have known for about 16 years. I only have a couple of real good friends from college which was about 6 years ago. I haven't made many new friends in the last 2-3 years although I have met a few people I hang out with now and then.
 

CKent

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My closest friends are my internet buddies :p I've known some as long as 6-7 years. That's about how old my dog is too. My best RL bud I've known for probably 12 or so.
 

Aikouka

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have 3 best girlfriends that i've know since kindergarten.

Hook a nerd up! :D

Umm I'm at... like 10-11 or so years for pretty much all of my good friends.
 

JulesMaximus

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My closest friend? Probably 14 years now. I have some other close friends I've known for about 11-12 years.
 

child of wonder

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Been buds with my best friend since 8th grade so almost 15 years now.

Next closest would be 7 years.
 

CTrain

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My oldest friend is the one I met at my first job at McDonalds.
Hes just happened to be the owner's son.
Met in 1989 but didn't really hang out till a few years later.
I usually go on vacations together with his family.
I can imagine going into some type of business together with him as w get older.
It kinda of explain why I'm(or was) in the McDonalds business.
Actually most people I hang out with now are all McDonalds people.

Weird but I do not have contact with one single person from HS.
 

bobsmith1492

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The oldest friend I know, one of the first I met when we moved to this town when I was 4 or so, I met in probably 1991, so that would be about 16 years now (I'm only 21...)