Girls Only: Ask Dr. M: Friends

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Dr. M is the author of five advice books, including Getting to Know the Real You: 50 Fun Quizzes Just for Girls, and Girls: What's So Bad About Being Good? How to Have Fun, Survive the Preteen Years, and Remain True to Yourself, both written with her teenage daughter. Dr. M shares this advice column with Molly, a middle school student who loves to play soccer, dance, write and spend time with her friends.

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Dear Dr. M and Liz,
My best friend and I are being separated. She's going to a different school than me. We were always together and now we're getting separated. I don't know how to live without her. Can you help me?

—Regina, 11


	Dear Regina, Although it will be harder on the two of you to stay best friends when you don't see each other all the time, if you really want your friendship to remain strong, you're both going to have to make an extra effort to stay connected. How? By calling or emailing each other on a regular basis and by making and keeping plans to get together after school and on the weekends. When you have a really strong bond with a friend, you'll find that when you do see each other, you'll just naturally take up where you left off—and you'll still be able to share the important things in life.


	Dear Regina, Last year, my best friend started going to a different school from the one I was going to. I already had one other good friend at my school, and the two of us became better friends. My best friend and I are still best friends, but now I have two best friends. I think that you should try to make new friends at your school, but also stay friends with your best friend.

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