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This points to friendship as a real form of love, not merely a side effect of romance or desire. It reads as a challenge to anyone who reduces close companionship to something secondary, suggesting that such a view misses what friendship is in itself. It lands when a person realizes a friendship has its own loyalty, care, and depth, separate from attraction.
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About C.S. Lewis
British author, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian
C. S. Lewis was a British author, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held posts in English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis also wrote The Screwtape Letters and the Space Trilogy, along with Christian apologetic works such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. His writing ranges from imaginative fiction to religious argument, and much of it reflects his interest in Christian belief and moral questions.
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