[They really, really don't.]

Hmm. I see...
I may be someone of the former variety. It took a few million years before I could call anyone in the realm I come from a "friend".

[And even then, with how kind people in Ellipsa have been to them, they're thinking of yanking that title back from a few back in Everhood.]

However, if that is my rubric for friendship... I ought to change it. I have been told humans only live to be eighty.
But, regardless -

I would be very happy to be your friend, Julie.