How to Accept the End of a Friendship (Maybe)
A line from a novel helped settle my unease about once-close connections that have gone cold
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4 min readJun 8, 2021
Once upon a time, we were deeply ingrained in each other’s lives. We met up for dinners or movies or just to ride the rhythm of our good time, toasting to our own riff on “nature’s masterpiece,” as Emerson described friendship. We…