“Mom’s Advice For Hosting A Class Reunion” by jenn

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Pour more money and effort into them than you think is reasonable. Treasure them, because you can't actually host that many of them and keep expecting everyone to show up, even if they're good friends. Especially if they're good friends. We were wonderfully close friends, and I thought we'd meet up every year for the rest of our lives. They fizzled out by the fifteenth year. But the one at the tenth year mark was peak. That's because even ten years out, none of you really have money. Not real money. It's because they're such good friends, really. This is what it means to be good friends with brilliant, ambitious people. If you bloom into adulthood with people who are smart and driven, and you watch them start to climb the corporate ladder with grace, when they start a business of their own of course you are going to want to invest. You are going to want to give them an unwise portion of your savings. Not even out of politeness, but because you really believe in them, and perhaps you're caught up in the romance of it all. Some of the dealings are going to happen at the [...] --- First published: August 15th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Fjfa8JG43CrYtcL3p/mom-s-advice-for-hosting-a-class-reunion --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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