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No strings? No way. The perils of being ‘friends with benefits.'

No strings? No way. The perils of being ‘friends with benefits.'

Emma Medeiros made a special friend decades ago while she was in college. Ultimately, Adam Caldow would become her best friend — and also her 'friend with benefits,' slang for a friendship that becomes sexual but not romantic.
'We wanted to lose our virginity, but neither one of us knew what we were doing, so we thought, this is a good match,' Medeiros recalled. 'We won't be embarrassed if we're with someone else who doesn't know what they're doing,' added Medeiros, who is now 44 and living in Lewiston, Maine.
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