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Talking About Friendship

What do we owe our friends? What do we owe ourselves?

Heather Havrilesky
May 23, 2024
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Earlier this week, Ava Huang from Bookbear Express asked me a bunch of great questions about friendship, and I wanted to share some of my answers here because I’ve been thinking a lot about the responsibilities of close friendship lately.

People get tired of hearing this from me, but intimacy with others necessarily inc…

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