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Cross Country Checkup: Why are adult friendships so hard to make?

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Cross Country Checkup: Why are adult friendships so hard to make?
Vice
Vice🏁 first to report5 hrs ago
The Real Reason Adult Friendships Are So Hard to Keep Alive
Adult friendships don’t usually have some big blow-up before they end. They just get compressed. The texts get shorter, the calls get rescheduled, and one day you look up and realize the people you’d call in an actual emergency is a much shorter list than you thought. The CDC puts about 1 in 3 U.S.…
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