Margit’s Note: Will You Be Mine?

By Margit Detweiler

Hello Friend.

I miss you. We were attached at the hip for over a decade. You were my “plus one” at rock shows. I learned to love camping (even if I just couldn’t get with the rainbow hacky sacks). You had a kid, I didn’t. I stayed in the city, you moved to the ‘burbs. “Remember that time your cat projectile vomited on that guy who stayed over?” It still cracks me up. I see you every day over on FacePlace. But I haven’t talked to you in six months. Still, I know you’ll be there, and I’ll be here, after everyone else has left the party.

This week we take a minute to celebrate our BFFs — the women who we’ll always be latched to, who own a large part of us, even if we’ve drifted away from each other and into our own little lives.

This week on TueNight:

• Lauren Young shares the lifelong crew of 12 friends she’s maintained since preschool.
• Stacy Morrison is still making best friends in her 40s. Go figure.
• Tina Rowley laments the break-up of a longtime friend.
• Kristin Booker tells us which 8 girlfriends we all need in our lives.
• In Front to Backlist, Bethanne Patrick gives us three reads about friendship.
• And Heather Barmore reminds us that sometimes we need the anti-friend friend.

“BFF” in the TueNight Shoppe

Buy your best girl a bracelet — and other great goodies from our GREAT.LY BFF boutique.

A Few Friendlies Around the Web Worth BFF-Ing

• Ann Friedman chats up Aminatou Sow on  The “Call Your Girlfriend” Podcast
• Amanda de Cadenet has a new live talk show Undone
• Nancy Davis Kho is “Still in Rotation” on Midlife Mixtape
• Kim France shares her impeccable taste in Girls of a Certain Age
• Rebecca Odes and Jill Soloway are filling the hole on Wifey.tv
• And Rachel Sklar and Glynnis Macnicol give great feminist read on The Li.st @ Medium

Call ya later,

Margit

(Photo: Nestor Lacle/Flickr)

Originally Published July 22, 2014. Updated May 5, 2021.