“you’re my best friend, now i’ve got no one to tell i’ve lost my best friend.”
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[ID: 1. Submission from @/dazzlingtiredeyes to @/wnq-writers: There's a sickening feeling of familiarity, when the wrong person knows you too well And you know them too well. [highlight] And they weren't always the wrong person. [end highlight]
2. From I Guess the Old You is a Ghost (#589: June 25, 2014): "And how odd it is to be haunted by someone that is still alive."
3. Quote from Poetry Rx: I Loved My Friend by Claire Schwartz in The Paris Review: You promised to be her friend forever. Sometimes forever isn't a measure of time. When you made that forever-promise, you lived in a moment so full it offered you a perch to glimpse the rest of your lives. That is a gift. But, as James Baldwin writes: "For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever..." Things change. [highlight] Change is a condition of loss. It is also a condition of growth. [end highlight] You deserve to pour into those who would pour into you, to carry forward your capacity to love towards those who will love you well back.
4. A tuxedo cat stands in a field of grass. In the foggy sky, text has been edited on top and reads, "now you are just a stranger with all my secrets"
5. Quote from Arthur Miller: "I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again."
6. Tumblr post from @/bloomingtrans: thinking about the friendships that just dissipate and the unresolved grief that comes with that
7. Tumblr post from @/frenchtoastlesbian: losing people is so interesting because like. no i don't want to speak to you ever gain. yes i think about you on your birthday.
8. Tumblr ppost from whitealbum dated December 4th 2019: isn't it all about old friends? like everything? all of it?
9. Text reading: the poets and singers and the authors write about romantic love when it ends. but nobody tells you how to get over a friend.
10. Quote from Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng: "You'll always be sad about this," she said softly. "But it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry."
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