The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally…

Cheryl Strayed
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The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which. ✨ Cheryl Strayed (2013). Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There, p.52, Atlantic Books Ltd
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