Is it just his personality, or is my friend for 19 years, an expatriated Brighton boy, typical of Englishmen in his reluctance to express personal feelings? After 19 years I don't think he's ever verbalized any feelings of friendship to me, though we've hefted 1,000 pints together and sung 2,000 songs. "Men don't talk of such things," he'd say. Whereas and nevertheless, I've tried to say what a good friend he's been to me only to be met with chagrin.

Just curious, Fortunato