Your Secret Weapon Against Stress
By: Ellen Michaud
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The "I've Seen You with Your Braces and Bell-Bottoms" Friend. This is the one that knows where you live -- not just literally, but that figurative place where it all began. You bonded over jumping rope. She knows your family, knows how you crashed your first car into a pole the day after your sixteenth birthday and didn't laugh when you wore a 32AAA bra. She understands where you're coming from and helps you get where you want to go.
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The Biological Buddy. This is the friend who mirrors your family status. If you have children, so does she, and ideally her kids are close enough in age to yours that you can bemoan the dilemmas of potty training or car seats together. You listen patiently to her stories about Junior, nod in the right places, and then it's your turn.
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Your Own Personal Martha Stewart. She knows everything, from how to get candle wax off your cat's ear to what color shoes to wear with a celadon silk suit. Roof leaking? She's there with some shingles and tar that she happened to have in the workshop. She has every tool, every recipe and every magazine article cross-referenced and indexed. She's irreplaceable.
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Sister-in-a-Suit. She knows how much your salary is and was instrumental in getting it there by counseling you before your last big performance review. Powerhouse, confidante and the Wall Street Journal in comfortable pumps, she's a source of professional inspiration. (And awfully fun to have drinks with after work, to boot.)
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Wild Woman. You've always been curious about male strip clubs but never had the nerve to ask any of your usual friends to go to one. Bingo -- wild woman is your ticket. Nothing will shock her, and the word "judgment" is not in her vocabulary.
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