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Managing Relationships
Chanda Patel
BSOM/234
January 6, 2018
Charmaine Hopkins
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Managing Relationships
Growing up I had many close friends whose friendship that I’ve cherished throughout the
years. But there is one friendship that comes to mind first when I think of my close relationships.
When I was in the 10th grade, I became close friends with one of my old classmates back from
middle school. His name was Shakeem and we had reconnected through Facebook one day and
realized that we had already known each other from middle school. After our reconnection, days
started to go by where we started to talk to each other every day and then it ended up being a
everyday thing. We would talk to each other about our days, we would be there for each other
when needed and we started to share many laughs together.
As Shakeem and I started talking more frequently, we started to build trust with one
another. We would tell each other things that we normally wouldn’t tell anyone else. We talked
