javascript xml - How to find all nodes of the same type inside a node?

I have a xml file as response from a web service call with the following structure:

<LifeEvents>

    <Event>
        <eventid>
        </eventid>

        <eventtext>
        </eventtext>

        <eventplace>
        </eventplace>

        <Friend>
            <Name> </Name>
        </Friend>

        <Friend>
            <Name> </Name>
        </Friend>

    </Event>
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</LifeEvents>

To have access to individual properties of a event in the xml file i do the following after i get the xml response from the web-service call:

$(xml).find('Event').each(function() {
                var event_id = $(this).find('eventid').text();
                var event_text = $(this).find('eventtext').text();
                var event_place = $(this).find('eventplace').text();

});

But how can i have all friends as individual variables. because now i need to proccess all friends inside event. How can i achieve that?