Matches
Pals
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The American students all lost their matches, but became the best of pals with their adversaries (and the Japanese students in general); when time came for the new arrivals to head home, unofficial class leaders Momotaro Tsurugi and Kieth Jackson both state that they cherished their time together.
Source: Defeat Means Friendship - Another time when Eddy tells Ed to think (about a matches problem) Ed stands absolutely motionless for a whole day and night, his pose so unbreakable his pals resort to sleeping in the crook of his arm till the following morning.
Source: Putting On My Thinking Cap
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