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FRIENDSHIP: 2024 CREATIVE NON-FICTION SUPPLEMENT

In the fleeting period of time you spent together as friends, you’ll realize that they’ve become a part of you and your story in little ways.

FRIENDSHIP: 2024 CREATIVE NON-FICTION SUPPLEMENT

It was the last night before our high school year-end ceremony. Thirty eighteen-year-old kids sat together around the campfire on the beach. The sea breeze, mixed with the fire, shifted through our faces.

FRIENDSHIP: 2024 CREATIVE NON-FICTION SUPPLEMENT

i think i’d been in denial about it for a long time. i never wanted to admit but i’m the third wheel.

FRIENDSHIP: 2024 CREATIVE NON-FICTION SUPPLEMENT

A hot summer day. A playground. Bikes parked on the grass, some knocked over, some still standing.

FRIENDSHIP: 2024 CREATIVE NON-FICTION SUPPLEMENT

Sometimes, it just takes a bit of time and patience to find your people. Don’t give up, keep putting yourself out there and I promise it’ll be worth it.

FRIENDSHIP: 2024 CREATIVE NON-FICTION SUPPLEMENT

Don’t fight the universe! Friends will appear when they need to. And they won’t when they don’t.

FRIENDSHIP: 2024 CREATIVE NON-FICTION SUPPLEMENT

It would be a cliche for me to tell you how I came to university with my head filled with bright promises of the friends I’d make and the everlasting bonds I’d create, ones that would last a lifetime.

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As I rolled into Bristol with my two suitcases, I wondered how this place — with its little cafés, the Wills Memorial Building, a Gothic tower rising against the skyline, and my flat’s small room and maroon curtains — would become my home for the next four months.

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