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Weekly Contest #301
When I lived in Fargo at 25, I decided it was finally time to make my first male friend. My old roommate Leidy made guy friendships seem easy, a concept completely alien to me. I’d had deep friendships all my life—just never with anyone who owned cargo shorts.Leidy and I met at 22 through AmeriCorps. We were assigned to a town in rural Wisconsin we’d never heard of and had never met before signing the lease. Rent was only manageable because we split it, and volunteering on the nearby reservation paid in character growth more than cash.Main S...
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