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Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Aminatou Sow
★★★★· Published 2020· 251 pages· read 2022
The book I want to hand every friend I'm scared of drifting from. Sow and Friedman take a close friendship seriously enough to examine how it almost broke.
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