The Atlantic

Key takeaways from It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart

The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them

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Friendship is the rare kind of relationship that remains forever available to us as we age. It’s a bulwark against stasis, a potential source of creativity and renewal in lives that otherwise narrow with time.

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