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Family and Friends
“At 40, I thought I’d have more friends. Diverging life paths made me lonelier than I expected”
Updated 1 year ago
8 min read
The average person can only maintain five close relationships, so why can it feel like everyone else has more friends than us as we age? Writer Rachael Swindale explores how diverging life paths among friends can determine how lonely we might feel.
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