Reflection Part Three: Friendship

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What better way to wrap up this introspective, 3-part series than to discuss friendship? For me, the word “friend’ is not to be dished out willy nilly.

Since childhood, I have remained quite particular about who I consider to be a friend. In fact, if you were not in my close circle at Seat Pleasant Elementary, you had to address me by my birth name — Dorothea. I was a quiet, observant child (also labeled…