The Friend You'd Let Fade
Who are the three, and who is the first to drop off?
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The Friend You'd Let Fade
You are told, plainly, that you have room for three close people. Not family, not your partner. Three. The rest become birthday messages and a drink once every couple of years, and they will feel the change even if they never name it.
Who are the three, and who is the first to drop off?
Then ask
- Which of them would be surprised to be cut?
- Who has already done this to you? When did you notice?
- What would you have to stop doing to keep a fourth?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.