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Coming up on forum, a close friendship can be one of the most fulfilling and most challenging relationships of our lives.

In their book, Big Friendship, How We Keep Each Other Close, writers and longtime friends

Aminat Tussaud and Anne Friedman share what it really takes to maintain their meaningful

bond, including how race plays out in their relationship and how going to therapy together helped save their friendship.

And we want to hear from you. What have you learned from your big friendship or even one that didn't make it?

Join us after this news. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. I don't know too many people who go to therapy to revive a fading friendship, but that's what friends Aminatu So and Anne Friedman did.

And the rarity of that step is part of the problem, they say. A close and honest friendship that

transcends life phases or emotional shifts requires work. And yet when there's tension or

misunderstanding, it can be really hard to do the work to address it. In their book,

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