Chandler From Friends - by jen - Untitled Document

I spent ten drafts writing about this guy

(Heads up, I talk a lot about death and grief in this post.) It only took watching one episode of Friends to decide that Chandler was my favorite character. I was in middle school when Friends came out on Netflix. My mom invited me over to watch the first season. I was transitioning out of my YA novels and into literary classics, mostly so I could score more points on the Quiz Bowl team. But classic books also gave me this sense of purpose that I could latch onto during a time when life was uncomfortably boring. Not bored in the way that a kid will start flipping over rocks in their…

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