How can we not ever move on?
she asks, blue eyes staring into the middle distance, lip gloss glistening beneath the camera lights.
Shes been here before.
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Theres no going back, and they both know it.
It hurts to watch, but the friendship is beyond resuscitation.
We hear a lot aboutpushing on with friendshipsthese days.
Its easy to see why were prioritizing friendships like this.
They are, genuinely, one of the most important aspects of living.
So when your mates send you funny memes, they are literally elongating your life.
Have you ever come back from a group hang only to feel lonelier than you did before?
I had this incredibly smart and funny best friend as a teenager.
We did everything together.
No snail theory-ing would have been able to save us.
Had either of us forged ahead, I truly believe we might have wound up hating each other.
And then there were all the nearly-but-not-quite friends that slipped through the cracks.
The girl I went to college with who moved and never reached out.
But shes one of my favorite people in this universe.
Even just looking at her face gives me a fresh hit of dopamine.
Heidi and Lauren never did recapture their friendship.
And maybe thats how it was always meant to be.
