I love my friends: just as when I was looking for housing a year and a half ago, I had several guest bedroom offers from my friends (and several keys to their houses on my key chain), so when I was looking for a wedding dress this year, no fewer than three of my friends offered to lend me their dresses (one is hanging in my closet right now). One dress is a size 2, so that friend either is seriously divorced from reality or has an overly ambition sense of how much weight I can lose in the next few months.

This is just to say: my friends are incredibly generous people.