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Work Friendships, Summer House, and the Soulmate Origin Story

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The conversation pivots to a sincere argument for the value of workplace friendships, which both hosts say are consistently underestimated. Hannah had many office comradery bonds in her 20s — co-workers who still text her about bathroom crying sessions — and both agree that shared stress and common goals create the same conditions for bonding as shared trauma. Paige extends the point: the universe places you in specific rooms with specific people for a reason, and dismissing those connections as 'just work' misses something important. The origin story of their own friendship emerges naturally: Hannah first briefly encountered Paige at an office meeting, barely registering her. But the moment they walked into Summer House together, a producer warned Hannah that Paige had slept all day and needed to bring it. Hannah's immediate, instinctive response — 'she's fine, she's in REM sleep, she's going to be great' — was, in retrospect, the founding moment of a soulmate friendship.