How do you handle friendships that no longer fit? As she enters middle age, Ms Deborah Giam reflects on the necessary discomforts of pruning one’s most intimate connections in life. I used to think letting go of a friendship would be dramatic. In my younger days, I pictured relationships ending because of a fight, a confrontation, a "break-up" conversation.  Now, at the age of 45, I've accepted the truth: That the end of a friendship is rarely loud.  Over the course of my life, I've collected