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How to rebuild friendship after losing proximity to your closest people

My best friend from college lives three hours away and we text but never see each other anymore and I keep thinking I should make local friends but I do not know how to start over at thirty-five.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Geographic distance can sever bonds that feel permanent, forcing us to confront whether we can create new intimacy from scratch.

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