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Listener Favorites: Marisa Franco | How the Science of Attachment Can Help you Make and Keep Friends

According to a survey of 2000 adults, the average American hasn’t made a new friend in the last five years, and yet, 45% of people would go out of their way to make a new friend if they only knew how. Marisa Franco is here to help you not be a part of these statistics. Armed with the best of psychology and the science of attachment, she provides us with an easily digestible solution to making (and keeping) new friends.

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