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20 Friend Dates 🌹 - by Annika Hansteen-Izora

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Love your homies! Celebrate your homies! Write poems about your homies!

If I’m gonna talk about the homies, we’re gonna start this one off with gratitude. Thank you to every friend with whom sitting in silence is enough of its own conversation. Thank you to every braid that gets caught in my hoops when we hug. Thank you to every homie who calls me out on my shit. The biggest thanks to every friend that sees the best parts of myself even when I don’t and gently asks them to come on out to shine. Thank you, group chat. Thank you zoom calls and facetimes. Thank you friends that show me that another world is not only possible but is in fact, reachable. Thank you to…

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