Mend fences with snoopy friend

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Updated: February 28, 2012 8:04AM

Dr. Wallace: Julie and I were best friends. My only problem with her was that she lied a lot. She didn’t tell vicious lies, just little white lies — but she sure told a lot of them. For example, if I told her a boy liked me, she would say that two guys liked her. Well, about two weeks ago, Julie spent the night with me because her parents were out of town. The next day Julie called me and said that we were no longer best friends and that she never wanted to talk to me again. When I asked her why, she said that she read my diary (She did apologize for being snoopy.), and in it I had written that she was the biggest liar in the state of Pennsylvania.

I admitted that I had written it but really didn’t mean it the way she took it. I really do like Julie and she is fun to be with, and I don’t want to lose her as a friend. Please tell me what to do to try to get Julie to change her mind and be best friends again.

Bethany, York, Penn.

Bethany: Send Julie an appropriate greeting card and add a note telling her that you are still her friend, that you miss her and are sorry. Ask her to please call you. She shouldn’t have been so snoopy, but she just might stop “exaggerating” the truth after she knows that you are aware of her lies.

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