From sleepovers where we proclaimed who our 'best-best' friends were to ranking our friends in order of importance in list form - adolescent friendships are forged quickly, and spoken about freely. So why does navigating the pressures of best-friendship in adulthood feel so much harder? After a lifetime of romanticising the 'best friend,' have we been wrongly deceived into believing we all need one person to embody our every friendship need?
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