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Words with Elise "Friend"

What a beautiful shared root.

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Want to hear something beautiful and surprising, that’s maybe not surprising at all? “Friend” and “free” share the same etymology, which is an Indo-European root of ‘to love.’ So I think there are so many ways to think about this, in the Dawn of Everything, they said that essentially the equivalence of friend and free was a way of suggesting …

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