The friend dropped after graduation

A fifty-one-year-old in Minnesota wrote this in the World Regret Survey: "I regret ending a friendship after college. I still wish Jen and I were as close today as we were back then." The break had no dramatic cause. Life got busy, replies got late, and the lateness made her ashamed, so they got later. Twenty years on she typed Jen's name into a search bar and deleted it. Friendships rarely end in a fight. They end in a postponed reply.