They say that sometimes spouses eventually start to resemble one another.

Some husbands and wives may not find this idea terribly thrilling.

A more disturbing trend is when people are dead ringers for their dogs, with the same flowing locks as their Afghan hound, jowls of their English bulldog, or roly-poly wrinkles of their Shar-Pei.

(Let’s hope none of my readers resembles the Komondor dog, which looks like a walking mop head!)

I guess it’s true to say that we become more like the people we spend a lot of time with.

We tend to conform to our friends’ attitudes and emotions, to their likes and dislikes, and even to their speech patterns. This can affect us for good or ill.

The Bible has a few things to say about how important it is to carefully choose the company we keep…

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