And as our friend above has explained very well, a nation state is not a family.
It was the new Group Nine, his friend had explained.
"A friend of mine who works at the Gazette," he explained.
"Old friends in high places," he explained with a wink.
"It's like I've been trying to catch a fish by swimming around with them," the friend explains.
"I was just stopping by for some grocery money," our friend explained.
He stood in confusion for a moment, while his friends explained what had happened.
"We can't get married because she is on welfare," a male friend explained.
As a friend explained to me later, I just wasn't the type to live in anyone's closet.