This is a sad confession why?
Because the word ''friend" appears in singular form?
Good point, but I'd rather have one good friend than ten false ones.
Absolutely true, of course.
I seem to have many hanging around at times wanting to call me "friend" who I want nothing to do with.
I too have one (1) friend, but we live twelve hundred miles apart.
(I also count my wife as a friend, but there are other dimensions to that relationship. This probably makes me one of the rich people, where friends are concerned.)