friendships
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Learning the Hard Way: A Conversation with Kate Baer
Kate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.
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Mixed Feelings: How to Make Friends after Thirty
The problem is we tend to let romantic love eclipse all else.
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Voices on Addiction: Twenty-Five
I know that there are those who would argue that alcoholism is a singularly extreme condition, and I get that, but I’ve always felt clear that there’s a lot of overlap between alcoholism and plain old ordinary humanity.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Life’s inequities can be cruel, but in the end we are all part of our communities; suffering though we may be, we are not alone.
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Breaking Up (With Friends) Is Hard to Do
Laura Turner writes about friendships and loss and the myths of ourselves: What I had found was that it took the instant to make me realize how much life had changed. M and I hadn’t been friends for years, but…
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Rewriting Friendship and the Family
At Longreads, Jessica Gross interviews social scientist Bella DePaulo on her research into the underreported popularity of non-nuclear living arrangements. DePaulo’s research also delves into the particular emergence of friendship as a building block of social living in the 21st…
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You’ve Got To Have Friends
Forget the herbal supplements, the diets, the hyperbaric oxygen chambers–a big circle of friends has a huge effect on your long-term health.
