Friendships are the greatest love stories of our lives

We are family even more so now than in our early twenties

The summer my boyfriend died, my best friend Anna Codrea-Rado bought me an empty notebook and wrote on the front page: ‘Never underestimate the power of the pen.’ I wrote those words back to her on the front of the DJ booth at her twenty-first birthday party at a working man’s club in Durham. 

Although it’d take me over ten years before I wrote anything,…