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What does it mean?
Hardships reveal true friends.
In plain terms
Bad times test friendship.
What can you take from it?
Trust is revealed in crisis.

Where it applies

  • hardship
  • betrayal
  • crisis

Putting it to work

  • social bonds
  • support
  • loyalty

Questions to consider

  • Who stands by you?
  • What tests friendship?

Another view

Some fake friends stay.

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