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When longtime friends outgrow cherished traditions but can't say it

My best friend and I have been doing this annual camping trip for eight years and this year when we started planning it, I realized I've been dreading it — not because I don't love her, but because somewhere along the way it became this obligation we're both performing instead of something we actually want to do. I can tell she feels it too but neither of us wants to be the one to say it might be time to let this tradition go.

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