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go back 03072023 - female friends a part of this break up meant that i was lonely for a period of time. logically, i am not alone. ive always had wonderful friends beside me but ive never been great at being a constant presence with in-person, platonic relationships. part of this can easily be attributed to the fact that most of my deeply formed relationships are elsewhere in the world - cross borders, coasts, and even the earth. but… i always felt alone in vancouver. most people have heard my rants about how impossible it was for me to make friends in this city. i still think this is true - it is harder than most other places ive lived in to spontaneously meet others and form a typical, life-long bond beyond multiples of 2. yet, the last two weeks have proved me wrong over & over! i reached out to my first heartbreak from a decade[!] ago. i had felt so unbelievably empty and only had my experience from years prior to anchor onto. i read through my adolescent diary entries of mourn

female friends | arielle lok go back 03072023 - female friends a part of this break up meant that i was lonely for a period of time. logically, i am not alone. ive always had wonderful friends beside me but ive never been great at being a constant presence with in-person, platonic relationships. part of this can easily be attributed to the fact that most of my deeply formed relationships are elsewhere in the world - cross borders, coasts, and even the earth. but… i always felt alone in vancouver. most people have heard my rants about how impossible it was for me to make friends in this c

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