There area 6 …… at the end of Q's post here. Maybe the hint was the dot stands for a work, like six words come after the word your.
1friends 2close 3and 4your 5enemies 6closer
Perhaps that is what the dot is, or at least one of the meanings of it. That it stands in place of a word or signifies a word.
>Captcha it gave me for this post.