Friendship seems too small a word for the influential and feverish relationship women can have | Sinead Stubbins

You can be friends with your postman or your drug dealer, really. It’s just not the same

I remember meeting her so vividly that it’s a bit embarrassing. It seems creepy to remember meeting someone in such precise detail – unless you’re marrying them or trying to implicate them in a court case. This story is about neither of those things.

My best friend and I met when we sat at our assigned seats on the first day of Year 7. She already had lots of friends from primary school in our year. She was tall, liked horror movies (I don’t think I was even allowed to watch The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes at that stage) and seemed to know about a lot of things that I didn’t. I was instantly curious about her.

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