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[โ€“] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can't really go applying modern expectations to the boundaries we associate with friend vs lover to a story that was written well over 40 years ago.

[โ€“] nexguy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It was written a very long time before that, at least 40 years ago.