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Most of the time, if you ask a kid who's their best friend, it's usually a classmate or their neighbor or something, but for me, it was my granddad. Everybody knew him - they called him Mr. Jones.

— Chris Paul

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.

— Patti Davis

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

— Jeb Bush

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

— Miranda Cosgrove

I was always the leading man's best friend's best friend.

— David Janssen

There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.

— Rebecca Stead

I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.

— John Jay Hooker

For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

— Alfie Allen

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother and I are very close; I guess you would call us 'best friends.'

— Susan Ford

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.

— Margaret Whiting

My first nephew, he couldn't say Auntie Nicole, so he called me Coco. So ever since then, everyone's called me 'Coco.'

— Nikki Bella