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Allison & Veda

photographed and interviewed my favorite best friend duo

Describe your friendship in three words.

Veda: “safe, playful, alliance”

Allison: “yin and yang”

Describe each other in three words.

Veda: “magnetic, funny, soulful”

Allison: “sunshine, songbird, safety helmet”

What song best sums up y’all’s friendship?

Veda: BIRDS OF A FEATHER, Billie Eilish
- “I feel very at home with her.”

Allison: That’s So True, Grace Abrams
- “Because she wrote it with her best friend.”

What is your favorite activity to do together?

Veda: “I love to go to Sephora with her, and also I love a good dinner-movie night.”

Allison: “When we sit in my bed, and drink coffee, and debrief.”

What iconic TV/film duo dynamic represents y’all?

Veda: “Monica and Rachel or Charlotte and Carrie.”

Allison: “Bumper and Donald.”

How has your definition of friendship changed since becoming friends?

Veda: “I see friendship a lot more as a growing with them and learning from them kind of experience.”

Allison: “It’s really just like more of a feeling rather than like a physical thing … Like, who is there for you despite being there physically?”