Another kind of buddy

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/15/2007 06:25 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>My wife's family refers to adult male friends as "boyfriends"  "Uncle
>Fred's boyfriend, Peter..."  This has always seemed off key to me.  Do
>adult heterosexuals have boyfriends?

They have toyboys, don't they?  (I am finding risible associations
hard to resist.)

Joel

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