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Aishwarya Kapoor

Why the Closest Friendships You Made in School Were Never Going to Survive Real Life

The Friendship Was the Building, Not the People

Think about where you met her. The same bench in Class 9. The same canteen queue. The same bus stop every afternoon for three years. The friendship felt inevitable because it was, you were placed inside the same building at the same time and told to stay there. That isn't a criticism of what you had. It's a description of how it was made.

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