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* [[Older Than Print]]: This actually occurs in [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''Troilus and Criseyde'' (Criseyde's Dear John letter, after she has dumped him for Diomede).
* [[Older Than Print]]: This actually occurs in [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''Troilus and Criseyde'' (Criseyde's Dear John letter, after she has dumped him for Diomede).
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'', This is basically the line Anne Shirley hands her childhood friend Gilbert Blythe when he asks her to marry him. Twice. {{spoiler|[[Victorious Childhood Friend|She comes around eventually]]}}.
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'', This is basically the line Anne Shirley hands her childhood friend Gilbert Blythe when he asks her to marry him. Twice. {{spoiler|[[Victorious Childhood Friend|She comes around eventually]]}}.
* Subverted with Leslie Slote and Natalie in [[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance|The Winds of War/War and Remembrance.]] They ''literally'' are "only" friends-insofar as friendship is an "only". That is, Slote is her former lover but is beaten by a rival. He is however graceful enough to not only [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|accept that]] but he remains loyal enough to devote himself to protecting her "merely" as a friend and pretty much sinks his career while doing so. As Natalie said in the miniseries, "People don't understand about us."


== [[Live Action Television]] ==
== [[Live Action Television]] ==