friendship

Housekeeping: I have an ask for you wonderful, wonderful people: please fill out this friendship survey! It’s 40 questions, your responses will be used for the rest of the book and it will be so very appreciated. There is some chance I will contact you to interview you if something feels particularly resonant with the project :) Thank you very very very much in advance! If this is a topic that interests you, know that you’re not alone: this is the number one thing people ask me about. Cute girls want to know how to meet more female friends. Guys with successful careers tell me they haven’t made any new friends since college. A great friend group, like a marriage, is both intensely desirable and elusive for many. Like many girls watching Sex and the City as a teenager, I was so taken by the idea of the quartet. I was already convinced that gossip, or the thoughtful circulation of privileged knowledge, would be one of the great projects of my life. My guy friend recently described his vi

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