When your best friend ghosts you

Ooh, spooky. And also extremely sad.

On November 21st, 2017, my friend Clara (not her real name) invited me over to her house and cooked me dinner. We caught up about our lives, drank boozy bevs, and laughed a lot. Everything between us was as normal as could be: no lingering tensions about the many conflicts we’d been through together in our ten years of friendship, which kicked off in a …