
I dumped my best friend (and don’t regret it)
For Nicola*, calling time on a 30-year friendship was painful and frightening – but she knew it had to end. “We’d been best friends since our 20s,” she says. “I loved Hannah because she was fun and vibrant and full of energy. But as we got older, aspects of her life appalled me, and I felt …

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