How to be an old friend
Maintaining a long friendship can sometimes feel impossible and I should know...
‘A friend doesn’t change us, but changes in her quietly accompany changes in us, in a continuous, mutual effort of adaptation’
It was 4.53pm on a Sunday afternoon when I pressed send on the email I’d waited two decades to send: an apology to my oldest friend, for my poor behaviour when we were teenagers. I suddenly had an inkling of how…