Andrea Gibson

And people are like, this is God, all of that mix of stuff.

And

I feel like I have the best friends in the world and it depends on the day how, um, and how they're doing.

I have four people who, who I call my best friends and who they call me their best friend.

And, um, and those four people are going through it right now.

I'm pretty hard.

Um,

And it's helpful for me when they tell me that because it helps me to help right now.

I think that's also part of the reason why I wanted to do this my whole career.

When I started writing about anything I'd been through, whether it was sexual assault or anything, I thought, oh, I read a poem about it and it helps people.

Then that thing didn't feel like a wound in my life in the same way.

And so I still, it feels, I need that from my friends.

You know, my friend came over the other day and she's going through a lot of relationship troubles.

And I'm like, I don't want to talk about cancer.

What can we talk about about this very big thing going on in your life?

Because these things are still very big, you know?

We have this idea culturally that cancer trumps everything, but... But the common cold also sucks.

Common cold, God, is terrible.

My friends...

They're just wanting to be around me all the time.