Probably at this point, I have friends that are older, but I'm not as close.

And he was is, but was significantly important person to me.

I never would have expected that we wouldn't be speaking really.

This is Death, Sex, and Money.

This show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

I need to talk about more.

I need to say.

Our closest and longest relationships are often built on a foundation of sameness.

The families we grow up in, the place we are from, the religion we practice.

In your stories of a strangement, many of you talked about the jolt of realizing that

someone you once thought of as similar suddenly appeared very different.

I am struggling with my best friend.

Once Donald Trump began to arrive on the scene, he really began to focus on this sort of

conspiracy narrative.

Juan is 50, a Colombian American who lives in northern Virginia.

He wrote to us about a close friendship that had recently fallen apart.

They'd been friends since Juan was a teenager in Miami.

His friend was one of the first Colombian Americans his age that Juan had ever gotten close

to.

They met at a party.

And I just showed up at this apartment with close strangers.

And at the end of the night, we ended up walking out together.

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