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How to navigate economic inequality in long-term friend groups

Our close-knit friend group from college has been planning an annual reunion for fifteen years, but this year several people can't afford it and others are suggesting we just do it without them. I can see our group splitting along economic lines and I don't know how to address it without making it more awkward.

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The unspoken reality that financial circumstances have diverged threatens to recreate class divisions within relationships that were formed before those divisions existed.

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