Divorced and middle-aged, he needed to make a friend. But he’d forgotten how.

WEST LINN, Oregon — When John Dekalb was young, making friends was easy. He walked up to other kids on the playground or sat near them in class, and all of a sudden, with very little effort, he had real pals. Later, his wife introduced him to her friends’ husbands, and they hung out as couples. But...

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