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I met up with my friend Emily last night. Like most of my closest friends we first met when we were in our twenties, but in recent years have found that marriage, children and the general busyness that flows from both means we rarely see each other. The fact that she lives in Tunbridge Wells is also problematic, on multiple levels.
Meeting up with her in person reminded me how little I see my actual friends — by actual friends I mean those who have known me at least since the first Blair administration.
