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When your closest friendship changes after you get sober

My best friend of fifteen years keeps making jokes about my sobriety that feel cutting, and I think she's drinking more than she used to, and we both keep pretending everything is normal but there's this new distance between us that we're both dancing around.

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Two people who have grown in different directions are struggling to name what's happening between them without losing each other.

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