1.   To be fair, a friend did once confess to liking them.

2.   A friend confessed that she never drank Perrier because the bubbles were too large, preferring instead Salvetat or St. Benoit.

3.   A friend of mine confessed an indiscretion.

4.   A good friend who agreed to tape his conversations with Sands in order to exonerate him, says he was shocked when his friend confessed.

5.   If a friend confessed he had slept with his mother, Russell would prescribe a good psychotherapist, not a priest.

6.   In his first term, he shifted ground on issues so many times that even his best friends sometimes confessed they did not know where he stood.

7.   Then his friend confessed, too.