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Mirror 29 · Friendship

Growing Apart

Some friendships are meant to last a lifetime. Some are meant to last a season. The tragedy is not that they end — it is that we hold on so long that we sour the memory of what they once were.

The National Library of Portugal sits on a hill in Lisbon, a neoclassical building whose reading room is crowned with a dome that filters the afternoon light into a soft, golden glow. In the basement, in a climate-controlled archive, a team of cartographers and historians works on a project that has...

Reflection question

What would change in your life if you truly believed this?

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