companion
noun
a person who is frequently in the company of, associates with, or accompanies another.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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This generation has companioned Death too closely to see him again quite as the hooded terror of old.
From Leaves in the Wind by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner