Group Chats Don’t Replace Friendship—They Can Keep It Alive
The group chat is a means, not an end. Not what our friendship is, but what keeps it alive.
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A public school teacher on break from the K-12 classroom, Kurt Ostrow studies creative writing at the Ohio State University. He is also a Macrorie Fellow at the Bread Loaf School of English.
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