How One Night Destroyed a Lifelong Friendship

I had never been as much myself with anyone else in my life as I was with him. And I walked away.

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We met when I was 19. He was 20, seven months older than me to the day. I’d just gotten out of a long-term, long-distance relationship, and although I knew one day I wanted to get married and have kids, I wasn’t sure what I…