That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.
I think when youre kids, youre less . . . defined? Then you get older and you start deciding what kind of person you want to be, and it doesnt always match up with what your friends are turning into.
Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends secret places.