> Friendship requires proximity. This is clearly false as plenty of long-term long-distance friendships exist. It does make it harder, but there's a difference

> Friendship requires proximity. This is clearly false as plenty of long-term long-distance friendships exist. It does make it harder, but there's a difference between "harder" and "impossible". I have several multi-decade friendships where we have no friends in common and either never met in person or met only a few times.