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finding belonging in a friend group

Alex Katz, Round Hill I was waiting in line today at the Göreme Open Air Museum when I saw them. They looked like they had stepped out of the same Instagram influencer’s account: five women in their early-to-mid twenties, wearing fitted tank tops (white and black only) tucked into high-waisted, frayed blue jeans. Cross-body bags. Birkenstocks. Take them out of the remote, mountain terrain of Cappadocia and plop them into Soho, New York, and you wouldn’t bat an eye. You might not even notice them, so pervasive has that look become within a certain milieu. I wondered: were they friends…

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