Friends Are Everything by BJ Gallagher

Friends are everything...and everywhere. We are related to our friends by heart -- and sometimes by blood as well. Friends can be neighbors, coworkers, classmates from grade school days to college daze, bosses, sisters, mothers, sons, brothers, fathers, kith and kin. Friends share our good times and our bad, joining us in laughter as well as tears." ~ BJ Gallagher

(PRWEB) March 10, 2005 -- Friends Are Everything (Conari Press, April 2005) is a heartfelt celebration of friendships and a perfect gift to share with a friend as a Thank you," an Im sorry," or an I cant tell you how much you mean to me" message. Because, after all, there are some things you can only learn from friends. Who else is going to let you know your slacking off is showing? Who else is going to tell us you can let your feelings show? Who else is going to leave you voice mail that makes you laugh so hard you run for the ladies? Friends, true friends.

BJ Gallaghers call for stories went out far and wide, and the stories came back -- about friendships new and old, friends who tell you the truth you might not want to hear, who dont place conditions on their love, who help you see your best self, who forgive you when you hurt them, who respect our boundaries.

- Friends are like a magnifying glass -- they show us things we dont notice ourselves.
- Friends are like reading glasses -- they can help us decipher the fine print.
- Friends are like shiny mirrors -- reflecting back to us how beautiful we really are.

Friends Are Everything includes more than three dozen real-life stories from true friends across the country, as well as quotes and little-known facts about friends through the ages.

BJ Gallagher is an inspirational author, speaker, and seminar leader. She writes popular womens books as well as best-selling business books, including A Peacock in the Land of Penguins, which has sold more than 300,000 copies in 17 languages. Her work is featured in various magazines from O, The Oprah Magazine to Womans World, and First for Women. BJ is passionate about friendships, family, creativity, self-expression, and health. Her commitment to women being accountable for their own choices in life makes her work both inspirational and practical -- calling women to own their own lives and create their own futures, no matter what pain the past holds.

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