Best Friends Forever Don’t Exist

It took me 30 years to realize one person can’t be your sun

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First, there was Paula in second grade, picture books and games of hide-and-seek. Then came Cindy, who waged a constant, violent war with her mother for leaving her father; Jennifer, the most popular girl in grade school, who would end up in five years time stalking Madonna in front of her apartment in…