You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as happy ending. There is so much to lose.

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.

When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you say the Three Little Words, you sit on a swing set and break up. You can plot the points on a graph. And you check up with each other along the way: Can I do this? If I say this, will you say it back?

"But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.