What you don’t know about your friends

Our closest acquaintances are nearly strangers to us - and that might not be so bad

By Drake Bennett

August 9, 2009

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ANYONE WITH A passing familiarity with American daytime television knows “The Newlywed Game,” where fresh-faced young husbands and wives flub basic personal questions about their spouses, revealing an often comical ignorance about each other’s habits, beliefs, and sexual quirks. In many cases, the newlyweds seem to grow visibly apart on-air, and after the laughs die down it’s hard not to ... (Full article: 1956 words)