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actually, His most intimate friendships were certainly with men. He lived in a thoroughly male society, and his friends were drawn from the upper crust, many of whom were his companions on the expedition to Asia. His closest relationship in the tight-knit circle of young companions was with Hephaistion whom he may have known from childhood.