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[dragonsdreamoffire]

Childhood best friends are interesting cause sometimes a lot of it hinges on them being sort of the same person as they were as kids. Except people grow and change, so maybe over time Person A realized they didn’t like chocolate as much as they like strawberry, and Person B changes their preferences like the weather.

Person A grew out of their local church, and their values changed immensely. Person B is still in indecision, but knows they’re not super certain about the stories they grew up with.

Person A does not order a drink knowing what Person B likes, they ask, because they know it’s been a while. Person B jokes about Person A’s preferences, but it turns out they’ve changed.

Person A used to be incredibly indecisive and cautious, but they’ve already overcome that personal challenge. Person B was headstrong and impulsive, but went to therapy to work through the roots of that.

Each person is unrecognizable to the other, in all but the details that only exist because of their shared connection: in between their jokes, the giggles sound similar, just older, and in between long talks, their sentence pattern flows the same.

They’re still childhood best friends, and in many ways they know the person this new one is based off of, they know what challenges they braved and what core memories they formed. But as a person grows, fundamentally they must change. The love they have for each other never has to though.