The narrative trajectory of a friend group over time — the collective character development that happens when you look back and realise your mandem has genuinely changed, grown up, or gone through something that reshaped the dynamic. Every friend group has a mandem arc: the era before someone moved, before the falling out that never got fully resolved, or before everyone suddenly had real responsibilities. Charting it out is either nostalgic or devastating depending on where you are now.
We're clearly in the redemption phase of the mandem arc — everyone's actually showing up for each other lately.
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