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  "path": "/issues/2026-5-16/etiquette-for-befriending-a-friends-friend",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  Don’t forget where your friendship came from; i.e., your original friend.\n\n##### If you want your friend to welcome your friendship with her friend, it is essential that you follow these rules\n\nBy Cazzie David\n\nThroughout my life, I have introduced many people who have become close friends. I’ve connected new friends to old friends, work friends to childhood friends, family friends to college friends, and so on. I am, for the most part, totally happy for my friends to become friends. I’m chill! Everybody knows that about me. There have been other times, however, where I have been less than pleased (i.e., regretful of every day that has passed since introducing them). Watching your friends ride happily off into the sunset together can be triggering, but _the way_ in which they go about riding off determines whether or not the trigger is fully pulled, and whether they’re aiming the gun at your leg with a tourniquet nearby, or directly into your face. READ ON",
  "title": "Etiquette for Befriending a Friend's Friend"
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