I'm wondering about who he's talked to as well. Has he had a talk with the kid? Actually, my first question was has he talked with the parents? In the entire letter, his friend and his friend's family are mostly passive objects of his feelings and I haven't gotten much impression that they are actually real, living, independent people who might, yanno, have some thoughts on the matter ... or, well, anything LW does at all. Other than inviting him to a lot of things, which, sure, is something, but there's a whole lot of nuance that is missing there.
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