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How economic differences strain longtime friend groups

Our friend group has been doing an annual trip for eight years and this year half of us can't afford it anymore but nobody wants to say that out loud. We keep pretending we're just having trouble with scheduling when really some of us are struggling financially and others don't realize how much that's changed.

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Money changes everything, even when no one talks about it.

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