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When I Find Myself in Times of Trouble: True and Beautiful Friendship

Started by Daniel Gibbons · 8 months ago

[By Sarah Juliusson, whose dear friends forced her to take a bubble bath today, fed her chocolate and cheese, and took her laundry home with them.]
Friendships are a complex thing. We hold them dear as confidants, co-conspirators, and collaborators as we go through life. There are ... Continue reading »

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  • Michelle

    8 months ago

    This is a beautiful peice. I feel a twinge of recognition and know I need and want to allow deeper connection with a few in my life. Thank you.
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  • Sarah

    8 months ago

    Sitting at dinner with some new friends lastnight, feeling that nascent sense of what it means to let people into our whole life, wanting to allow them in. It's a beautiful thing.
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  • EcoDiva

    8 months ago

    Thank you for this beautiful reflection of friendship. As a mom we enter a whole new phase of making friends, and this is a reminder of the process and how opening up to a new friend can brighten the day to day and deepen a new bond.

    I love my friends dearly and am blessed enough to have a few that I can feel free to get snotty with....tears and all.
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  • Rick_Juliusson

    8 months ago

    As a man i often assume that all women have these types of friendships in abundance, and it's just us men who feel a need for deeper connection. Not that we have to express it with the same snot and honks, but in our own Manly Macho way we share this longing for real friends with whom to share our real selves.
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