Choosing A Drunk Girl Over My Friends

When defending a stranger cost me friendships

Cassie M. Thompson
Published in
5 min readMar 21, 2021

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Photo by Tobias Tullius on Unsplash

About a decade ago, I was in my early twenties and working at Best Buy. Most of the employees were male, and I was struggling to make friends in this new west coast environment after moving to California from Maryland. People were closed off. Cliques were already formed, and newcomers were largely unwelcome into established…

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