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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday. Today,

let's talk about friendship. To start, I want to tell you about my friend,

Jennifer Reingold. Jen. I met Jen when we both worked at Fortune. She's a few

years older than me. For seven years, our office has shared a wall. She really

helped me. I was so new at reporting when I showed up. She shared her

contacts with me, and she had this thing where she'd get right up in my face and

be like, why are you even doing that? She wasn't afraid to do that to anyone.

It's what made her such a good reporter. But what I remember is actually how

many times she dropped in that chair across from me at my desk. Well, I cried after

breakups or after my stepfather died. Or how we started going to the gym together

lunch. Or we'd stop off for a drink with colleagues after a long day.

Jen could literally convince anyone to stay for just one more until it was

suddenly 10 o'clock and you knew that you would regret it the next day.

Jen's a work friend, but of course, she's so much more than that. She's a friend friend.

Why do we do that? Why do we add the qualifier work? It's as if these friendships are somehow

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