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How to be best friends for ever: don't cancel, fight like siblings and make new memories
Adult friendships can be tricky. They're not as fragile as the friendships of the teenage years, when something as simple as your pal going to Starbucks with someone else can shake your relationship to its foundations; but neither is it like primary school, where you can just go up to someone in the playground and decide you are now best friends for ever.
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