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"Old Friends Are the Best"은 Jack Sharkey가 1960년에 출간한 단편 소설이다. 이 작품은 친구 관계와 이에 따른 사건들을 중심으로 풀어나가는 이야기다. Sharkey의 작품 중에서도 인간 관계와 사회적 상호작용에 중점을 둔 이야기로, 주로 캐릭터 간의 대화와 상호작용을 중심으로 전개된다. "Old Friends Are the Best"는 친구 관계의 중요성과 그에 따른 변화를 탐구하는 소설로서, Sharkey의 작품 중에서도 인간적인 면을 강조한 작품 중 하나다.


"Old Friends Are the Best" is a short story published in 1960 by Jack Sharkey. This work is a story centered around friendships and the events that follow them. Among Sharkey's works, it is a story that focuses on human relationships and social interaction, and is mainly developed around conversations and interactions between characters. "Old Friends Are the Best" is a novel that explores the importance of friendships and the changes that come with them, and is one of Sharkey's works that emphasizes the human side.

Summary
Are you one of those people who save the best things for the last ... who eat all the chocolate sundae away from under the maraschino cherry? If so, you are very like the Peter W. Merrill Moonplant.
It had no awareness of time, and so did not know nor concern itself with the millennia that passed since it first drew up the dissolved silicates from the shifting grey remnants of soil and arranged them inside the walls of the thousand green pods that were its body cells, and settled down to wait. Somewhere within its fragile cortex, a tiny pulse of life beat.

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Old Friends Are the Best