When we see each other’s vulnerability as something common, the idea of friendship as something manufactured slips away.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Gut-Wrenching Process of Befriending Ourselves, 18 April 2017; Complete sentence from her published essay about shared vulnerability and connection. Read in context and distinguished from the student quotations later in the essay.
- The Gut-Wrenching Process of Befriending Ourselves, 18 April 2017
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