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Wenjia Tang The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship
I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned.
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Wenjia Tang She Wouldn’t Exist if Not for Her Friend’s Family
“It’s shown me the extent to which human beings can be extraordinary to each other.”
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Wenjia Tang A Second Chance at Friendship
“It happened because both parties were interested to make it happen.”
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Wenjia Tang How Two Internet Nemeses Became Friends
“As you find more common ground with someone, they become more of a person.”
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Wenjia Tang The Friendship Researchers Who Are Also Friends
“In our writing, it got to the point where we could no longer remember who wrote which sentences, or who came up with this or that idea.”
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Wenjia Tang A Creative Solution to ‘the Friendship Desert of Modern Adulthood’
“I knew many old couples who had happy and loving arranged marriages. I thought, If it worked for them, why couldn’t it work for friendships?”
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Wenjia Tang The Friend Who Taught Her She Could Make It as a Single Mom
“Sometimes we need a friend to tell us what our inner voice is saying.”
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Wenjia Tang The Stay-at-Home Dads Who Don’t Stay Home
“There’s no rule that says that you have to do kid-centric things when you’re parenting your child. Your kids just want to be a part of your life.”
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Wenjia Tang The Unexpected Joy of Finding Your Best Friends in Your 40s
“We can just let loose and be ourselves like we were when we were boys.”
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Wenjia Tang The Tight Bonds Among Expats
“You need your friends abroad. You really need them; you don’t have family.”
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Wenjia Tang One Friend Is Married to Him. The Other Used to Be.
“There’s a high level of emotional intelligence here, and love, that really makes it work.”
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Wenjia Tang These Long-Distance Friends Reunite Every New Year’s Like No Time Has Passed
“It’s a perfect combination of all the things that friendship should be, put into a tiny piece of space-time every year.”
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Wenjia Tang Superficial Interests Don’t Matter for Friends Who Agree on the Big Things
“Our friendship shows that if people have grace and compassion with one another, if that’s your priority in your relationships, then it doesn’t matter what you share. It doesn’t matter where you differ.”
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Wenjia Tang Comics Made Them Friends. Their Friendship Made Great Comics.
“He writes things that I want to draw.” DC Comics’ Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Clay Mann, and Evan “Doc” Shaner on the friendship that helps them take artistic risks.
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Wenjia Tang What It’s Like to Truly Be Friends With Your Ex
“We can’t always neatly break things into ‘friends’ or ‘more than friends.’ There’s different kinds of love.”
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Wenjia Tang When You Find the Best Friend You’ve Been Longing For
“I’d look at people, when they’d use the term best friend. I was like, I want one of those.”
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Wenjia Tang When Friendship Is a Family Matter
“The bond that we have and the experiences that we’ve shared, I don’t really think ‘friends’ captures that.”
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Wenjia Tang How to Rekindle a Long-Distance Friendship
“I think about nonphysical connections as seeds for potential future physical connections—things that can blossom.”
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Wenjia Tang The Value of Friendships That Don’t Come Easy
“I probably wouldn’t have naturally fallen into friendship with Heather. It took a little more effort; it took a desire to really pursue getting to know someone.”
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Wenjia Tang A Friendship That Fuels a Bigger Notion of Family
“It’s comforting to have a village of companions in this adventure to raise these children.”
