a childhood friend

friend

(literally) a bamboo horse (bamboo toy that resembles a horse that children can ride on) / bamboo stilts (walking pole) / walking on bamboo stilts

together, with

combined, merged, unified

combination; a state which is combined / meeting

(for a child to) be raised, grow up / (for vegetables etc.) to grow / nurture, train (professionals)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend