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“Everyone wants to attend parties, but no one wants to throw them. We just expect them to appear when we need them, like fire trucks. My point is that we are obligated to create the social world we want. Intimacy, togetherness—the opposite of the crushing loneliness so many people seem to feel—are what parties alchemize.” As someone who tends to ho
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Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
Never miss or ignore an opportunity to make new friends and to nurture existing ones. You can always make a point of accepting invitations to others’ happy events; and, yes, you can always make a point of attending others’ sad events, too. In other words, engage in ongoing community building activities. These days, everyone is busy; it is all too e
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