When you mention a romantic breakup to someone, they immediately understand what you mean: two people who used to be inseparable are now separated. But you can’t really describe the loss of a friend in the same way, even though the description totally fits. […]
Somewhere in suburbia, there is an inside-joke graveyard haunted by the ghosts of former selves, desperately trying to connect over forgotten secret codes and half-remembered stories.
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Rookie » Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Rookie mag on friendship breakups, and how they can really, really suck. I wish this piece was longer.
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The agony of friend breakups is really under-written about. Also, we have fewer guides for how to handle that shit. Do I...
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alyssaspiering said:
this just made me so sad that i can’t handle reading the article right now. g-dammit.
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