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Friends Can Break Your Heart

Or open it wider.

Heather Havrilesky
Feb 21, 2022
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Red Canna (1923) by Georgia O’Keeffe

I’m thinking about friendship this morning thanks to Jennifer Senior’s provocative piece in The Atlantic, “It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart.”

As someone who’s been more than a little obsessed with friendship for years now, I have so many thoughts, but my favorite part of the piece is the exploration of the friend…

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