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Cari Shane Parven is featured on the Today Show to discuss her essay "Finding Friendship at 40." Interviewed by Natalie Morales, Cari talks about the physical and emotional benefits of connecting with female friends.
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"The lonliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend."
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
"Friendship is an investment of time and self."
Until I turned 40 I had been a failure at friendship. I had failed at "good" and "best." With no best friends with whom I could share the next phase of my life,
I embarked on a voyage to invest myself in the women I knew and cared about deeply. Finding Friendship at Forty brings readers with me on my journey through
friendship. It's my story; tell me your stories of friendship. Why do you love your best
friend, what brought you to her in the first place. Write about the good and bad, the funny and the poignant.
- The Life of Reason by George Santayana, philosopher, poet, literary and culture critic.
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher, and poet.
"Friendship is an investment of time and self."
- Finding Friendship at Forty by Cari Shane Parven
Until I turned 40 I had been a failure at friendship. I had failed at "good" and "best." With no best friends with whom I could share the next phase of my life,
I embarked on a voyage to invest myself in the women I knew and cared about deeply. Finding Friendship at Forty brings readers with me on my journey through
friendship. It's my story; tell me your stories of friendship. Why do you love your best
friend, what brought you to her in the first place. Write about the good and bad, the funny and the poignant.
