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My college friends always make fun of me for describing pretty much everyone I've ever met as one of my very best friends.

They're like, I actually don't think it's possible for a person to have 10,000 best friends.

One time I got into an argument with someone and when I told them about it, their immediate response was, oh no, are they no longer one of your best friends and now they're just one of your very good friends?

Which I have to admit is an excellent roast of me, a very precise and cutting zing.

But it also taps into something sort of essential about me.

I have always cared a ton about friendship.

I'm really interested in how friendships work.

There's so much that I want to unpack and to understand.

What are the unspoken rules when it comes to friendship?

And should those be the rules or do we need to re-examine them?

We're going to be talking all about platonic relationships with Raina Cohen, an award-winning journalist and the author of The Other Significant Others, Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center.

To get us started, here's a clip from Raina's TED Talk.