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As Musgrave notes in her introduction, "Friends help us make it through the social meat grinder of our teenage years," and the seven autobiographical essays by women collected here grapple with everything from the slippery definition of friendship to the death of a crony. There's no straining for lyricism--just frank reminiscences whose specificity engenders a quality of universality.