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Is it wrong to be good friends with a bad person?

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September 12, 1:30 pm

Is it wrong to be good friends with a bad person?
Plus: How to grow your own food; treating caffein as a drug; and the phenomenon of frequency illusion  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏  ­͏ 

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