Fried Apples and Friendship I don’t consider myself an unfriendly person, but I am selective when it comes to forming lasting friendships. There is in my view a huge difference between people we call friends and those we call acquaintances. Friends are those with whom we share “enduring affection, esteem, intimacy and trust.” That definition according to Britannica and I must agree. An acquaintance on the other hand is someone you know and see on occasion. Most people make hundreds of acquaintances in a lifetime, and many of those may be good people. However, only a few of the people we meet ignite a spark that results in lasting friendship. Such a spark struck my core when I met Rose, the Librarian in a neighboring town when the library hosted Kent Haruf’s 1984 book signing for his first published novel, The Tie That Binds . Haruf, who died of cancer in 2014, went on to write many other novels, inc...