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My Childhood Best Friend and I Reconnected After Nearly 30 Years Thanks to Holland America.

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Published November 14, 2026

“We have to do George Washington hair!” I yelled to my childhood best friend. We were in the warm waters off Corsica, but for a second we might as well have been in a backyard swimming pool. We’d named the…

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