Introduce one of your friends by finishing the following table.

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FRIENDS，GOOD FRIENDS AND SUCH GOOD FRIENDS

Friends among women

　　（Adapted from Judith Viorst）

　　People usually think that women are friends and when they are friends they are friends all the way，but I believe that is a narrow point of view. For the friendships I have and the friendships I see are at many levels，serve different purposes，meet different needs and range from those as all-the-way as the friendship of the full sisters to that of the most casual playmates.

　　Consider these friendships at the different levels：

　　1.Convenience friends. These are the women with whom，if our paths weren't crossing all the time we'd have no particular reason to be friends：a next door neighbor，a woman in our car pool or maybe the mother of one of our children's closest friends.

　　Convenience friends are convenient indeed. They'll lend us their cups and silverware for a party. They'll drive our kids to a football match when we're sick. They'll give us a lift when our car is under repair. They'll even take our cats when we go on holiday.

　　But we don't，with convenience friends，ever come too closer or tell too much；we maintain our public face and emotional distance.

　　"That means，" says Eileen，"that I'll talk about being overweight but not about being depressed. Or I'll admit that our boy is naughty but not nasty. Or I might say that we're pinched this month but never that I'm worried sick over money." But that doesn't mean that there isn't sufficient value to be found in these friendships of mutual aid，in convenience friends.

　　2.Special-interest friends. These friendships needn't involve kids or silverware or cats. Their value lies in some interest jointly shared. And so we may have a stamp friend or a tennis friend or a shopping friend or a friend from the Women's Democratic Club.

　　"I've got one woman friend，" says Joyce，"who likes，as I do，to take Modern Psychology Courses，which makes it nice for me-and nice for her. It's fun to go with someone you know and it's fun to discuss what you've learned." And for the most part，she says，that's all they discuss.

"I'd say that what we're doing is doing together，not being together，" Susan