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From npr, this is invisibiliya, I'm yo-ay Shah.

And I'm Kia Miyakana-tees.

So Kia, at the show, we've been talking about how among the many things the pandemic has radically shifted,

is this one relationship that doesn't normally get as much attention in our culture, our friendships.

Yes, yes, I moved home during the pandemic, and I've just really been missing my friends.

I have gotten to hang out with my friends in person.

Lucky you.

But it's been awkward trying to figure out everybody's personal boundaries around safety and comfort, you know?

Like who you're going to hang out with and how?

Oh god, so many awkward conversations.

Anyway, we've been talking about all this at the show, and it got us thinking, let's do a season on friendship.

Yeah, it's such an invisibiliya topic.

I mean, it feels very ambiguous.

There's no legal rules or clear cultural scripts for how to do friendship, at least not in the same way that we have for like family or romantic relationships.

This will not be a definitive book or anything.

We will just give it the invisibiliya treatment.

You know, overthinking lots of uncomfortable questions.

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