Joe Bell
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The Narrator
Quote 4
"You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend" (1.35).
This is yet another iteration of love from Joe and it reveals the possibility of loving someone who we never really know. Holly is not a stranger to Joe in the literal sense, but she's a stranger in the sense that he doesn't know much about her. Even so, he can still love her from afar. He can still love her as one friend would another.