My late soul brother Dick and I had the same experience with our fathers. I remember it when I'm feeling sorry for myself because all my closest friends have passed.
Each of us had our father take us aside and tell us how lucky we were to have such a close friend. The subtext was that neither of them had found friendship as close as we experienced. This surprised me because my father had a ton of friends and was much more gregarious than I am. But there are friends/acquaintances and there are very close friends.
So, yes, it's lonely to have outlived all my closest friends but, by the gods, how fortunate to have had them in the first place! Something else to be thankful for.
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