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Female friendships are hard
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endIndex: The ability to make friends with other women and keep them is an inexact science; they are constantly caught in the flux of several conflicting life-things. Illustration by JL JAVIER
Friendships were always narrow and curious trapdoors to another place, but I was never particularly good at keeping or making new friends. When I was 10, I had a friend named Justine and she came from new money. She owned a pair of pink and shiny Skechers runners and spoke English with an accent. We just fell into the friendship naturally since our families were very close. During a long holiday break, we worked on school projects that turned into elaborate craft projects at my house, snacking on crispy sweet potatoes while we were more than eager to litter my family’s sala with sequins, glitter and scalding goo from a glue gun.