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Housekeeping: Sophia and I are helping CAFE ANNE, one of my favorite Substacks, match her subscribers!! There are also other fun matchmaking experiments that will be revealed soon. T and I said we’d be friends at St Jardim in 2023. It was springtime and she told me she’d decided to be vulnerable with me, starting now. And that we were going to be close. I was a little bemused because she had not so far been particularly vulnerable at all, and I was wondering if the change really could just happen like that, or how it would feel. But it really did just happen just like she predicted. I moved to California, we hung out when we visited each other’s respective cities, we became friends. In the Waymo on my way to see her yesterday I was so excited I had heart palpitations. At the party the topic came up: can men and women be friends? P said that she didn’t think they could, that male/female friendships could never be as unboundaried as her friendship was with me. Which is probably true: we

always on your side friendship is magic Ava May 05, 2025 185 9 36 Share Housekeeping: Sophia and I are helping CAFE ANNE , one of my favorite Substacks, match her subscribers!! There are also other fun matchmaking experiments that will be revealed soon. T and I said we’d be friends at St Jardim in 2023. It was springtime and she told me she’d decided to be vulnerable with me, starting now. And that we were going to be close. I was a little bemused because she had not so far been particularly vulnerable at all, and I was wondering if the change really could just happen like that, or how it woul

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