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When longtime friends stop being honest with each other

Three of us have been best friends since college and we used to challenge each other on everything — politics, relationships, life choices. Now we're all successful and polite and I realize we haven't had a real disagreement in years because we're all protecting something, but I don't know what.

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A friendship has calcified around unspoken agreements to avoid the very conversations that once made it vital.

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