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The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship - The Atlantic

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I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned.

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. “ The Friendship Files ,” my series of interviews with friends about their friendships, began with an idle thought. Having written a lot about both friendship and dating apps , I was curious about Bumble BFF. Did it work? Did it feel like dating? What do you do on a friend date anyway? So I interviewed two young women who became best friends after using the app. It was intended as a onetime article, but the conversa

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