Do your friends pass the freedom friendship test?
The pandemic has separated the wheat from the chaff in our social circles and now is the perfect time to assess who you do or don t need
19 July 2021 • 5:00am
When England were lining up for penalties, who did you want to talk to?
Credit: PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou
The balloon is up! We can see all our friends whenever we like. Then again, will we? No point beating about the bush: the pandemic has separated the Must Sees from the Could But Don’t Really Have Tos. It took us weeks to discover the people we needed to talk to, months to establish the ones who were on the same page, and now our friendship landscape looks a bit different. It’s less populated for a start.
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