A poetic ode to friendship

Check out Carol Muske-Dukes' poem "Twin Cities", published in the current edition of the New Yorker. Muske-Dukes uses images of the Mississippi and its east and west banks to recall a friendship from childhood. What holds us together, and what keeps us apart?

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