Are Your Friends Test-Worthy?

Kate Stone Lombardi
4 min readJan 17, 2022
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Reevaluating Friendships Through A Pandemic

“We don’t even have time to see the people we like!”

That was my Mom’s unfiltered response when one of her sister-in-laws called to make plans to get together.

This happened years ago, and at the time I was appalled by her by her blunt rudeness. But as we head into year three of the…

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Kate Stone Lombardi

Journalist/author. Contributor NYT 20+ years. Also WSJ, Time.com, GH, AARP, more. Author: Mama’s Boy Myth (Penguin/Avery 2012). Cook. Besotted grandmother.