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When longtime friends lose their intellectual intimacy

My best friend from college and I used to stay up all night debating everything from free will to whether love is real, and now twenty years later we both seem afraid to disagree about anything more controversial than restaurant choices. I miss who we used to be together but I don't know if she does.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The very history that should make deeper conversation safer has somehow made both people more careful with each other.

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