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Julie and julia9/25/2023 ![]() ![]() I coveted her big apartment, successful career, and loving (if unconventional) marriage, but she never once made me feel like we weren’t equals. Occasionally, she’d send me sneak peeks of her second book as she completed some of the juicier chapters. During the day we G-Chatted about outfits and relationships even though we both had deadlines and should have been writing instead. ![]() (We both had cats, and while I wasn’t yet in a place to have a dog of my own, I was grateful to hang out with her big, slobbery rescue, Robert.) Sometimes we drank wine at her apartment and tried to find me a new boyfriend on OkCupid, then we’d drink more wine and start searching the internet for our old crushes. We grew close and bonded over stories of heartbreak, as well as our mutual love of unfussy food and animals. I was shocked she was so open to me, but I got the sense she needed a friend, and after a melodramatic breakup, I did too. ![]() The morning after we met, she even joked about my amateur stalking skills on her blog, implying she’d done much worse. Julie not only agreed to write the foreword, she suggested we have lunch the following week. If someone did that to me today, I’d probably grab the drink and run the other way, but somehow it worked. ![]()
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