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How old friendships survive major life changes

My closest friends from college and I used to talk about everything but now our group chat is just memes and birthday messages and when we do see each other we spend the whole time talking about work and kids and I miss who we used to be together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared history is being preserved through ritual rather than renewed through depth.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous coming-of-age traditions?”

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