How to Make Friends and Influence People

This title is misleading.

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I almost made a friend last week. A woman posted in a Facebook group I joined, for moms in my area, saying that she wanted to make friends, both for herself and for her four-month-old baby. (Actually, I joined two groups with almost identical names, except one of them is subtitled “the cool moms group, not the other …