Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

by Kayleen Schaefer

Maybe it’s possible women have a different biological response to stress,”

“‘Best friend’ doesn’t convey the closeness and the necessity and the intensity of that bond,” she says.

“She is the mother I never had. She is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don’t know a better person.”

They met in high school but became friends when they lived together as freshmen at the University of Oregon in Eugene. As roommates, they made their own peanut butter for the first time when their shared store-bought jar was empty. (It was raining and neither wanted to bike to the store to replace it.)