haven’t had any friends
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Now Rennie was uneasy. “I don’t know. I guess this will insult you, Jake. I honestly don’t know why Joe’s so taken with you. He’s never been interested in anybody before — we haven’t had any friends, or wanted any — but he said after your interview that he was interested in you, and after your first few conversations he was pretty much excited. What he told me was that it would be good for me to get to know a first-rate mind that was totally different from his, but there must have been more to it than that.”
“I’m flattered,” I said, and to my mild annoyance I really was. “You think there must be more to it than that because you can’t see anything first-rate about me?”
“Never mind that. What scares me sometimes is that in a lot of ways you’renot totally different from Joe: you’re just like him. I’ve even heard the same sentences from each of you at different times. You work from a lot of the same premises.” Rennie had been getting more nervous all the time she spoke. Now she shuddered. “Jake, I don’t like you!”
