Jen

And I was never willing to cut her off prior to when I actually did because it was so much history in there that I couldn't imagine not having her in my life anymore.

And

You know, I was like, oh, she's my best friend.

Like, you know, this is how she is.

I can't just like cut her off.

But then like in early adulthood after college, you know, I started working.

I started like meeting new types of people.

And then I was like, I don't like really need someone like this in my life anymore.

And this doesn't align with like.

you know, who I want to hang out with anymore.

So basically we kind of just like slow ghosted each other a little bit.

Like she still lives in my hometown and lived there in my early adulthood.

And I moved to the bigger city by where we live.

Yeah.

Eventually when I just like was over it, we just kind of stopped communicating eventually.

So this past weekend, I was back in my hometown.

It was my mom's birthday and we needed to kill some time before meeting up with my mom.

So we went to the mall and I was like, I just like hate going anywhere in my hometown for the possibility of like seeing like school people that I don't really feel like making small talk with.

And I was like, oh, I hope like I don't run into her.

But like