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'My Best Friend Expects Too Much From Me!'

'My Best Friend Expects Too Much From Me!'

The truth will set you free.

Heather Havrilesky
Jun 26, 2023
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Dreaming (1942) by Helen Lundeberg

Dear Polly,

I am writing because I feel like I'm being a terrible friend, but part of me also doesn't want to be any better. I have had a singular, all-encompassing best friend since freshman year of college. We were a dynamic duo, two for the price of one kind of friendship. I loved having that steadiness, that companio…

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