Word: befriend
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Joining groups that pursue hobbies and interests similar to your own takes some of the self-consciousness out of friend seeking and provides a pool of like-minded people to befriend. When Frances Wong Chan, 78, a divorced retiree, moved from Washington to San Francisco 13 years ago to help care for her daughter's children, she didn't know a soul there outside her family. With no old friends in the city to reconnect with, she took the next best route. She joined the Unitarian Church, a book club, a co-counseling group, an investor's club, a senior...
...course, had joined long before me, and was vice-president of the small group. But I noticed right away that Navin was not perceived in the room as a sufferer from cancer; he was perceived as a leader in an effort he had pioneered to help, tutor and befriend children living with the disease...
Koocher said that the key for developers who want success in obtaining building permits in the Square is to befriend activists like Gifford...