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When old friendships become performances of past selves

My college friends and I meet up once a year and we all perform updated versions of who we were twenty years ago instead of being who we actually are now and it's exhausting but none of us wants to be the first one to break character.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're all trapped in amber versions of yourselves, afraid that your real evolution might dissolve the bond.

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