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When old friendships get stuck rehashing the past

My college friends and I still meet up twice a year but we just reminisce about the same old stories and nobody talks about what's actually happening in our lives now because we're all afraid we've become boring.

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Nostalgia becomes a cage when the present feels less worthy than memory.

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