Another kind of buddy

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, there's that blues guitarist, Buddy Guy.

-Wilson

On 6/15/07, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> 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?
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> They have toyboys, don't they?  (I am finding risible associations
> hard to resist.)
>
> Joel
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