Okay okay they don’t actually call themselves the Stradley Girls BUT they did become friends as freshmen at OSU’s Stradley Hall more than two decades ago! Just like the Mathey Girls, these women have kept in touch as they have gone on their very different life journeys. It was so fun to get to know them and chat about the book and the enduring value of long friendships. As I said to the group, there are so few people in our lives now who knew and loved our 20-year old selves. We may not even have loved our 20-year old selves! But our friends we met at the time did; they knew our worth and continue to love us because of, and in spite of, whatever young women we were at the time. I’m so glad that Mathey Girls was an occasion for these women to get together and catch up—thank you Stradley Girls for inviting me!
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