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19 February 2006
Be My Friend Neighbor invests $800k, gets back less than $300k. Still wants to be friends.
It also saves a lot of dissapointment. By pre-hating everyone (especially neighbours), you can just shrug and say to yourself "another arsehole, just like I thought" when they inevitably screw you over.