My friend R. once went a step further. Call them the “medium friends.”As an example, R. told me about a certain friend. R. simply did not feel as connected to this friend as he once did. And so, without malevolence or even conscious intent, he shuffled her down in his personal friend deck. But we’re just not that kind of friend.

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