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<p>Only on the Internet, and/or with remarkably good-natured people. (Or if you owe the person something – as with parent/child relationships.) Otherwise one-sided confidants get really annoying. They pay people $100/hour for that, you know.</p>
<p>(There’s a nice analogy for this that involves atoms and formal charges, but it’s only relevant because I’m procrastinating on chem homework right now. :-/)</p>