Word: companionship
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...Although it may seem as though the "Realdoll" is merely an anatomically correct mannequin, another customer, whose name is withheld by request, expresses a feeling of companionship with his new playmate. "She arrived at roughly 1 p.m....She made the journey well, she was strapped in her seat. The only trouble was that her left shoe had come...
...relationships. Abbie's Rock of Gibraltar is her best friend Robert (Everett), a gay landscape architect who has not been so lucky in love himself. The two are best friends in every sense of the word-in times of crisis, they rely on one another for solace, comfort and companionship. However, their platonic relationship is soon threatened by the death of a close friend-they consequently drown their sorrows away by indulging in an afternoon of cocktails, dancing and inebriated revelry. After accidentally taking their relationship to a physical level, Abbie soon discovers that she is pregnant with Robert...
Kirk Read, father of two and a professor at Bates College in Maine, was "looking for some male companionship that didn't involve guns, sports or six packs. I really felt a lack of male friends I could talk with about my life," he said. Read started a fiction book group of five men that meets each month. He says that their discussions sometimes lead the group to "get emotional issues out on the table. The books we read get us talking about being sons and fathers--about personal issues that otherwise wouldn't be expressed. It just doesn...
Children like the arrangement because they can roam freely from one friend's house to another. Parents appreciate having lots of help keeping watch, and singles enjoy the companionship. "My kids were grown up and gone," says Susan Barnhill, 57, a Mary Kay cosmetics saleswoman, as she rolls her wheelchair in the front-door of a flat especially adapted to her needs. "Here, there are instant friends...
Though most students attend MIT's summertime Research Science Institute (RSI) to expand their theoretical knowledge in one of many fields, gain an appreciation of real-life scientific research procedures and enjoy the companionship of those with similar interests, one side benefit is that the program occasionally inspires funny-sounding e-mail messages from a place apparently named "Johore," a region in Malaysia. At least this is what first-year Altay Guvench found out after he attended RSI two summers ago. Shortly before presenting a final report on his activities at MIT's Lincoln Laboratories, a military research lab, Guvench...