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WHY I GAVE MY FRIENDSHIPS A SPRING CLEAN

When it comes to making friends, I’ve always been a more-the-merrier sort of person. I have friends from every part of my life – school, university, work, the children’s clubs, our village, social media. But by the time I turned 40 a few (ahem) years ago, I found trying to maintain all these different threads of friends a little overwhelming at times.

Things seemed to have become busier than ever with work deadlines in my job as a journalist, while my husband Dom and I juggled the challenges of having three young children at different schools (who now expected us to be their taxi service!) and the general demands of

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