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My type.
I pulled up the Facebook profile of my high school bff and this is what I found in the Interests section:
Walt Disney World, Lamar Advertising of Milwaukee, FARRELLS ICE CREAM PARLOR, Chase Community Giving, New York City Dance Alliance, Young Dance Academy, Jayne Ann Krentz, The Animal Rescue Site, DIS RADIO - Disney Information Station Radio, MouseSavers.com, The DIS, Oak Creek Garage Door Co., Walt Disney Records, MAKING DRUG TEST MANDATORY FOR WELFARE, Conan O’Brien Presents: Team Cocoand 3 more
I pulled up my own Info page and this is my Interests section:
Iced coffee, Abandoned Souls, The Color Pink, Love, Vaping, Camping, Social media, Big wedges of lime, Corona, Blogging, Motorcycles, Horrible coffee that makes me wince, Mediocre Coffee, Really Good Coffee, Iced coffee, espresso, big dogs, floppy eared beagels, coffee on my balcony in the morning, NOT using plastic water bottles, leather, tank tops, big boots, skeleton keys, rocks, crystals and stones.
Her profile image looks similar to this (though I won’t use the actual picture)

Mine looks like this:

I think our roads definitely diverged somewhere… and that has made all the difference.
I occasionally mourn the loss of old friends. I am happy to be in contact with some of them, if only to say hello on occasion. But people change and sometimes we take the path we’re meant to take and nothing else would have been right.