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some things I learned about love this year - by Ava

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Edward Hopper, California Hills, 1957 Sometimes you just have to aim for minimum viable friendship. I think a lot of times people try to be the “perfect” friend and instead end up totally disappearing because they’ve made showing up so complicated. I suggest instead adopting the minimum viable friendship model where you actually 1) talk to someone somewhat regularly and 2) stay in their life instead of failing to fulfil grand aspirations and running away. Friendship can be as easy or hard as you want to be! Some things I try to keep in mind: Replying late is better than never replying.…

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