Making Friends, Losing Friends, Anxiety, and Laughs

At 30, comedian Gabe Mollica realized he didn’t have friends. He
only had bros, dudes with whom he could hang out in a kind of
shallow way. He hadn’t had a close friend since Tim in his young
adulthood. It wasn’t a romantic love, it was a brotherly platonic
love but nonetheless Gabe was in love with Tim. They met in
college, moved in together, volunteered at the same places, and
even spent summers working together. Inseparable. Tim introduced
Gabe to Kate, they dated for a while, then that ended, breaking
Gabe’s heart. Then Tim got together with Kate, announced this to
Gabe and that he wasn’t sorry about it, and that friendship was
over, breaking Gabe’s heart all over again. Hear about the
anxiety that followed and the loneliness and the isolation and
ultimately the new and stronger friendship Gabe formed with one
of his bros.


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