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Why Can't We Be Friends?

by Lillian Li

For every great friendship story, everyone has at least one friendship breakup. In this podcast, award winning author Lillian Li collects a friendship breakup story from an anonymous volunteer and shares it with one of her dearest friends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes

  1. Bad Weather Friends

    Today my guest is healing justice practitioner, artivist, and virgo: Kulkiran Nakai. Kulkiran and I have been friends for a few years and met in the Ann Arbor improv scene. Our friendship story comes from a person, let’s call her Robin — a true adventurer with a Russian nesting doll friendship...

  2. How to Be the Bigger Friend

    Today my guest is mother, educator, Jersey Girl at Heart: Julie Emra. Julie and I have been friends for about 2 years and met because a mutual friend noticed our bellies were the same size (AKA we were pregnancy pals). Our friendship story comes from a person, let’s call her Paloma — a former...

  3. How To Pin a Social Butterfly

    Welcome to the first ever episode of Why Can’t We Be Friends! I’m Lillian Li and I’m kind of obsessed with friendships and friend breakups. I wrote an entire novel, BAD ASIANS, centered on a huge friend breakup, and it’s a topic I feel like so many people share, but also one that not that many...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

For every great friendship story, everyone has at least one friendship breakup. In this podcast, award winning author Lillian Li collects a friendship breakup story from an anonymous volunteer and shares it with one of her dearest friends.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HOSTED BY

Lillian Li

Produced by JT Godfrey

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What is Why Can't We Be Friends? about?

For every great friendship story, everyone has at least one friendship breakup. In this podcast, award winning author Lillian Li collects a friendship breakup story from an anonymous volunteer and shares it with one of her dearest friends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Why Can't We Be Friends? has 3 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.

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Why Can't We Be Friends? is created and hosted by Lillian Li.
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