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True, loyal friendships and families are some of the most important things in any persons life. Friendship and family is what makes any person feel loved and cherished. Any person’s life would feel, and be meaningless without it. Family is the basis of life, ....

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.... but due to that, the family situations bring Gordie and Chris closer together. At most times, Chris is Gordie’s father figure, only because Gordie’s true father treats him as if he is nothing. Gordie’s father makes him feel like he should have been the one to die, instead of his brother, Dennis. At the times when Gordie needed somebody the most, Chris was there to comfort him and talk to him. This was first significantly shown when Ace and his friend had taken Dennis’s hat. Dennis was Gordie’s deceased brother that had died in a car accident a few months prior to the movie. Chris stuck up for Gordie and was hurt badly as a consequenc ....