Friends shape you, mold you, and influence you.

Friends love you and comfort you,
Laugh with you and cry with you,
Play with you and work with you.

Friends will be with you in sickness, and in health,
In joy and in sorrow,
In poverty and in riches.

Friends are good listeners, and always have a shoulder for you to lean on.

Friends encourage you to do what is right,

Once upon a time--indeed upon the beginning of time as we know it--there lived a wizard.

Not the sort of wizard that wears a blue robe with bright yellow stars on it, and sits and stirs a cauldron all day. No, he was a real wizard.”

“What did he look like?” Rannon interrupted.

I. What It Is