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They were both watching a girl woo boys with her poses. He found the poses funny enough to laugh at, but his friend saw in them manipulations he resented. His friend felt that she deserved what foul play came her way. But look at her, he had said to his friend, she’s almost dancing. Like it was for money, his friend snapped back, and that’s wrong! He turned to his friend on the next tree branch, but got no look back. His friend was glaring down upon the scene. He saw then that he didn’t know how to see the girl as his friend did, or how to have his friend see her as he did. And after the girl flaunted a whole-body shiver, he had to laugh loud at the goodbye kiss she threw to the boys before catching up to her friend, and to normalcy. His friend was now glaring at him. He tried to glare back, but gave up when he sensed how stark the gulf is between a different opinion and a different point of view.