A Misplaced Attachment
Nicole Acosta, Managing Editor
December 28, 2018
“I love you.” It wasn’t the kind of “I love you” that girls yelp in gratuity when their best friend convinces their secret crush to go on a date with them. Or the kind of “I love you” that one uses when their best friend gives them all the answers to the final exam. It was a romantic...
When You Have to Let a Best Friend Go to Tennessee
Matt Reich, Staff Writer
November 19, 2017
“Yeah the cops came.” The short text read. A thick pad taped to the left side of my stomach as I laid on the coach. My side aching across four etched lines with a north star for the most blistering pain. “I hope everything is okay. Let me know what happens.” It was the last time we ever...
Breaking Up With Your Best Friend
Isaac Rouse, Imapct Staff
February 26, 2015
I’m afraid I have to break up with my best friend. Calling him my best friend at this point lacks the scale of which our relationship has soared in the decade I’ve known him. He is easily the JD to my Turk, the James Franco to my Seth Rogan - but unfortunately I’m beginning to think we’re growing...
Why Can’t we be Friends?
Molly Stazzone, News Editor
March 11, 2013
There are a lot of unanswered questions about why men and women do not get along. However there is only one question that has been debated over hundreds of thousands of year but it has never been truly answered. Can men and women be friends? If you are like me and love romantic Comedies you remember...
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