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The Easiest Way to Keep Your Friends - The Atlantic

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It’s a little boring, a little type A, and a lot better than letting relationships fizzle.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 6:53 It started as a friendship of convenience. Kira and Nino, a husband and wife, had lived in the same building as my husband and me for years. We interacted occasionally, as congenial acquaintances do. Then the pandemic hit, and well, you know: We had time; we had proximity. We exchanged food and drinks and books and laughs, and one day I looked up and we were all honest-to-God genuine friends, the kind who water each other’s plants and know each other’s Sichuan-takeout requests. But then the world opened up. We had offices to go to, errands to run, and other frie

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