Even before you-know-what began, making arrangements with friends often felt needlessly tricky. Diary clashes, commutes, and work (or else lying supine and recovering from work) diminished occasions for quality time. To a certain extent, this is a hard-to-avoid part of growing up: In a 2016 study, researchers at Aalto University and the University of Oxford found that after the age of 25, we begin shedding casual friends to focus on closer ties. But that doesn’t lessen the need to show This story is from Kinfolk Issue Thirty-Eight Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 39 Learn Lenience We were all young once. Arts & Culture Issue 39 Pay it Forward How to be a mentor. Arts & Culture Issue 39 Be Accountable On youth and responsibility. Arts & Culture Issue 39 Think Back A reexamination of nostalgia. Arts & Culture Issue 39 Grow Up In praise of aging. Arts & Culture Fashion Issue 38 Needle Work In Seoul, the ancient art of tattoo is thrown into sharp relief.
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