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Judith Viorst On Cross-Generational Friends

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Judith Viorst writes about cross-generational friends in “Friends, Good Friends – and Such Good Friends.” As she states in her article these types of friendships can have a special type of intimacy that other friendships do not possess. Often you will share more with a cross-generational friend because they have been where you are and understand on a different level than your contemporary friends. I have a very close cross-generational friend whom I share almost everything with, I feel comfortable telling her thing that I would not tell to the majority of my other friends. There are many times when I know that I would not have made it through a situation with my sanity intact without her advice and

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