… friends.
Example One: She was chatting with her buddy Peter about Tom Lehrer, and it quickly turned into a competition as to who knew more lyrics and could sing them more convincingly. UD of course won; her parents played and sang Lehrer all through UD’s childhood, and UD has a better voice/vocal memory than Peter.
While UD basked in her victory, Peter said in a musing nostalgic sort of way I remember Tom’s many visits to my parents’ Cambridge house when I was growing up… He was a good friend and very entertaining…
UD bowed to his one-upmanship…
Example Two: Through Peter’s daughter, UD has come to be friends with Alice Hayes, a direct descendent of Rutherford B., and a clerk on the January 6 Committee. Barely out of her twenties, and guilty of nothing, she has just been issued a presidential preemptive pardon!