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When friend group income disparities create unspoken tensions

My college roommates and I have been doing an annual trip for eight years but this year's planning has revealed that we're all in really different financial situations now and nobody wants to be the one to say they can't afford what we usually do. We're all pretending everything is fine but the tension is obvious.

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