What’s required to keep a lifelong friendship, well, lifelong is a willingness to forgive each other our humanness.
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I’ve learned not to allow hurt feelings to fester. The strongest friendships are ones that have withstood the test of confrontation. It isn’t easy, I know. Our voices shake. Our palms grow damp. Our hearts beat a little faster. But when we tell our friends the truth of our hearts—even when it’s scary, especially when it’s scary—we are allowing ourselves to be seen and known.
The Friend Who Got Away – Dani Shapiro’s absolutely wonderful meditation on the rawnesses and redemptions of lifelong friendship.
Complement with John O’Donohue on the essence of true friendship, then revisit Shapiro’s indispensable insights into the pleasures and perils of the creative life.
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