The Benefits of the Single-Serving Friend

M. Howard
4 min readJan 27, 2020

Picture this: you are hanging out on the playground at a park on a sunny afternoon. You find yourself scaling the monkey bars two at a time and barreling down the plastic spiral slide, not a care in the world.

Suddenly, a child about your age starts to chase you. Instantly you become the victim in a game of tag where you inevitably are “it”. You run around the park, lost in a world of play…

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M. Howard

Mother. Wife. Friend. Lover. Self. All of them at once and sometimes none at all. I write to explore relationships and to help make sense of the world.