Best friends, a love story

“Wanna hear something super bitchy?” is a kind of love language.

Part of the Romance Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.

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Alanna Okun is a deputy editor at Vox. She is the author of The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater and the forthcoming Knit a Hat.

Aude White is a graphic artist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Believer, and more.

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