OleopteneA blog for Mara Collins

You don’t recognize it with the formality of, say, exchanging rings and pledging lifelong fidelity, and yet somehow, that’s how important it is.

My younger sister has had the same best friend since she was in second grade. This completely blows me away. Among the things I’m not which have defined my life, a best friend seems to top the list. In fact, until I was married and having children, the relationships with my women friends seemed so emotionally frought and complicated, and I had a much easier time with male friends. So it really startled me to realize that Jenny is my best friend.