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'My Best Friend Is Letting Me Down!'

Stand up for what you want but never stop making new friends.

Heather Havrilesky
Mar 11, 2024
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Early Politics (1988) by Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

I am a 25-year-old person who has had a very tumultuous relationship with my best friend for the past year and a half. To give you some context, right after college, my best friend from the college group and I ended up in different cities leading very different lives. We both also ended up getting into…

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