I Don’t Have Friends

I have fellow moms, or ‘mom friends’

Lindsay Hunter
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readAug 22, 2018

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Photo by Chris Barbalis on Unsplash

TThe other day, a fellow mom brought her girls over for a playdate. Our kids tore around the yard and hollered at us about unfair sharing practices and picked their noses and chased each other and gathered sticks and sweated and giggled and cried. They had a great time. Meanwhile, this mom and I sat at my patio table and talked about how we miss having friends.

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Lindsay Hunter
Human Parts

Lindsay Hunter is the author of two story collections and two novels, most recently Eat Only When You’re Hungry. She lives in Chicago.