And as our friend above has explained very well, a nation state is not a family.

It was the new Group Nine, his friend had explained.

"A friend of mine who works at the Gazette," he explained.

"Old friends in high places," he explained with a wink.

"It's like I've been trying to catch a fish by swimming around with them," the friend explains.

"I was just stopping by for some grocery money," our friend explained.

He stood in confusion for a moment, while his friends explained what had happened.

"We can't get married because she is on welfare," a male friend explained.

As a friend explained to me later, I just wasn't the type to live in anyone's closet.