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What Can Adults Learn From Kids’ Friendships? - The Atlantic

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Just catching up can feel stale. Playing and wasting time together like kids do are how you make memories.

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. R achel Simmons was raised Catholic and later joined a Presbyterian church, but she told me the closest thing she’s ever had to true religion came from a childhood friendship. When she was in middle school, she and two other kids, Margo Darragh and Sam Lodge, formed “RMS”—a name combining each of their first initials—that elevated their friend group to a sacred entity. As they approached high school, the girls would sneak out of their rural Pennsylvania homes at night and one would drive the rest on a fou

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