Can mortals and immortals be friends?

(written by Lawrence Krubner, however indented passages are often quotes)

If you are immortal, do you really want to give your heart to someone from a mortal species? You’ll have to watch as your loved one grows old and dies. Here we have a baby hippo that’s fallen in love with a century old tortoise:

Sadly, the hippo will grow up, then grow old, and die. The tortoise will probably be here 100 years from now, but the hippo will not be.

Unless things change a great deal.

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